Tag: Opioids

  • Virtual Event
     June 12, 2025
     11:00 am - 3:30 pm

50% of those involved in substance use treatment have a history of brain injury, and this estimate is even higher among those who also have mental illness. Those who survive opioid overdose can experience brain damage because of lack of oxygen to the brain. Individuals who misuse substances are also more susceptible to brain injuries (more…)


To Treat or Not to Treat?

“Fentanyl overdose survivors require little if any hospital treatment.” Study that sentence carefully. It’s the headline of an article describing results of a recently published Canadian study. Further on, the article states, “75 per cent of the fentanyl overdose patients…
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