Drug overdose epidemic predicted. Jack Shafer, now senior media writer at Politico, wrote an article in Science 85 magazine in March 1985 that explained the science of synthetic “designer drugs” and their drugs in the illegal drug marketplace....
Harm Reduction Ohio President Dennis Cauchon published this column in the Cincinnati Enquirer today. It’s time to stop talking about Ohio’s “opioid epidemic.” We don’t have just an opioid epidemic — and never really did. We have a drug overdose epidemic. Ohio’s entire...
Bill punishes diluting fentanyl, not fentanyl. Will likely increase overdose death in Ohio. Senate Bill 1: Testimony, Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee Dennis Cauchon, President, Harm Reduction Ohio January 30, 2018 Fentanyl is different Chairman Manning, Vice...
Proposed law severely punishes diluting fentanyl to make it safer Full House likely to approve this week The Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee has voted unanimously to lengthen prison sentences for drugs containing fentanyl or its analogues. An example of sloppy...
This story has been supplanted by superior data. The data provided by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was the best (and only) available at the time. However, it lumped all drugs confiscated at the same time, rather than only drugs actually mixed together....
