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Have you ever been so distressed by a perspective piece that it kept you up at night? The type of rumination that fills you with so much angst that you have no choice but to act.
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The column, which is structured as a sort of written debate in which two authors argue a clinical question, describes a case of a 45-year-old man with severe substance use disorder (SUD) recently diagnosed with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer. He was offered aggressive chemotherapy and a referral to a clinic to address his opioid use disorder but did not follow up in the SUD clinic and later presented to an emergency department after a heroin overdose that reversed with naloxone. At his oncology follow-up, he expresses a desire to proceed with chemotherapy but a reluctance to take medication for addiction, stating he can manage his heroin use on his own. The case notes a history of long standing depression and recent homelessn
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As COVID-19 rampages across New York, many localities are confronting another public health disaster: drastic spikes in drug overdoses and new cases of HIV. Fatal overdoses have doubled relative to last year in Albany and Onondaga County, and in 2020 the Rochester area reported more new cases of HIV than had been reported during the previous four years.
Yet medical professions say that widespread access to sterile syringes, a key tool for combatting both problems, is greatly hampered by the fact that the vast majority of New Yorkers cannot legally possess syringes.
Under New York law, syringe possession is a class-A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a monetary fine. Thousands of New Yorkers have been arrested for syringe possession over the past decade, mostly on Long Island and upstate, according to data obtained by New York Focus/City & State from the Division of Criminal Justice Services. Public health experts and harm reduction advocates say that t
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