Channel: The Drug Classroom

Category: Education

Tags: drug educationsupervised consumption facilitiesopioid crisisopioid overdose crisisfentanylinsitedrug checkingharm reductionopioid epidemic

Description: Dr. Mark Lysyshyn is a medical health officer with Vancouver Coastal Health in British Columbia, Canada. The Vancouver region, like many parts of North America, has been strongly affected by the rise in opioid-related fatalities. Dr. Lysyshyn is among those working to reduce fatalities by researching and expanding harm reduction tools. He recently co-authored a study looking at drug checking for fentanyl at Insite, a supervised consumption facility. It found a very high prevalence of fentanyl in heroin samples and also showed users do change their behavior, primarily by reducing their dose, when they know their drugs contain fentanyl. This suggests expanding the availability of drug checking could give users actionable information that will reduce overdoses. You can find the study here: harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-018-0252-8 Reddit discussion: reddit.com/r/TheDrugClassroom/comments/9tw269/tdc_podcast_11_dr_mark_lysyshyn_on_fentanyl_drug ------------ Donate to The Drug Classroom: patreon.com/TheDrugClassroom paypal.me/TheDrugClassroom Bitcoin: 1HsjCYpBHKcVCaW4uKBraCGkc1LK8xoj1B ------------ Thank you to my Patreon supporters: RollSafe.org, Gui Kirsch, michael hoogwater, Alexander Pavlenko, Sam A., Reece hosford, Jarrod o'connell, Daniel X Moore, Christoffer Finstad, Zachary Thomas Binkley, Dane Overman, Dragonhax, Jacob Fournier-Paradis, Ben Shipp, Brian Henry, Adrian Selnes, Victor Stasek, Marty Sederberg, Kate Crilly, Ikaros, Lorenzo Bellin, Philip Clark, Jeison Pacateque, and Chandler Ledbetter. ------------ Facebook - facebook.com/thedrugclassroom Twitter - twitter.com/drugclassroom Email - seth@thedrugclassroom.com ------------ The Drug Classroom (TDC) is dedicated to providing the type of drug education everyone should have. Drugs are never going to leave our society and there has never been a society free from drugs. Therefore, it only makes sense to provide real education free from propaganda. TDC doesn't advocate drug use. Rather, we operate with the intention of reducing the harm some substances can bring. Feel free to ask questions!