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How to Prevent, Identify and Respond to Opioid Overdoses
No more preventable deaths! If you or someone you love takes opioids you need to know how to prevent and respond to overdoses.
Heroin Harm Reduction Guide - Advice & Tips for Users
Here are 50+ heroin harm reduction tips... because anything that prevents overdose and keeps you alive and healthy increases the odds of finding eventual lasting recovery.
Benzodiazepines: Lethal for Suboxone and Methadone Clients
Using benzodiazepines with Suboxone or methadone is more dangerous than using illicit opiates! Learn why benzos and methadone/Suboxone just don't mix.
Why Suboxone Is Safer than Methadone
Suboxone is a safer drug than methadone – and so treatment with Suboxone is far less likely to result in tragic overdose (although methadone too, is safe, if used strictly as directed). Suboxone is safer because it is a partial opiate agonist rather than a full opiate agonist and so it can produce only limited effects. It is partially because of this increased safety profile that you can get month long take home doses of this medication.