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Rx Addict Action
Defining moments in Rx addiction
September 2013
In This Issue
Rally in Washington
Know Naloxone?
The Blogosphere
Finding the $ for Rx monitoring
Brandon Update
We're FED UP!
FED UP!

Washington DC October 1

FED UP Rally

Join or support this group of people representing individuals and organizations across the country, focusing on opioid overprescription and the opioid/heroin connection.
Saving Lives with Naloxone

So many are dying from opiate overdoses. What if an addict's friends and family could intervene at the time of the overdose with something to reverse the opioid effects?

 

The drug Naloxone is a prescription drug that is an antidote to the depression of the central nervous system and respiratory system, allowing an overdose victim to breathe normally. My guests on Afflicted by Addiction, Sharon Stancliff, M.D. & Whitney Englander of the Harm Reduction Coalition explained the movement to help raise awareness about this prescription injection that can save lives. 

 

In towns with more than 100 people with naloxone per 100,000 population, overdose rates dropped by 47%. This is rigorous data, and strong proof that the more naloxone in the community, the more lives are saved.

 

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International Overdose Awareness Day  (it's every August 31st) has come and gone this year. On this and every day, people are working to reduce the stigma attached to drug addiction so that we can have productive conversations about what can be done to stop this epidemic. 

 

It's not just my family, it's not just your family. So many families are afflicted by addiction. 

 

Every time one of us tells our story, we put a human face on addiction.  

 

Thank you so much for subscribing to this newsletter. Please share it with your friends and help educate others about this epidemic.  

 

Best regards,  

 

Bradley V. DeHaven

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Funding prescription drug monitoring programs

 

Why have California's advocates been unable to find funding to manage the state's existing prescription drug monitoring program (CURES)?  Senator Mark DeSaulnier, my guest on the August 13th Afflicted by Addiction, suggests these two reasons: 

 

 1) Denial that there is a problem. (The stigma surrounding addiction keeps it in the shadows. We need courage to accept it and talk about it.) 

 

2) There are people who make money with this "sanitized corruption." 

 

The pharmaceutical industry rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars selling opioid pain relievers in California alone. Is it too much to ask them to contribute funds to a program that will help alleviate the diversion of their product? Apparently so. 

 

Read more here, on my blog.


Brandon Update 
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September 13th: Brandon is 3 years clean. 

 

'Nuff said.  

Be responsible about your pain management. 
Lock up your meds! 
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