Top Alberta doctor touts once-a-month shot to counter OD brain damage
Dr. Nathaniel Day of the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence is advocating for the use of monthly Sublocade injections to treat opioid addiction and mitigate brain damage caused by repeated overdoses. He suggests that the symptoms of brain injuries from overdoses are often misidentified and resemble advancing dementia.
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Addresses a critical public health crisis by proposing a medical intervention to prevent long-term neurological damage in vulnerable populations.
Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Top Alberta doctor touts once-a-month shot to counter OD brain damage 'It may be that we need to do the things that we’ve traditionally done for people who have serious impairments, which is to protect them from themselves'
Join the conversation Discarded needles and drug paraphernalia in an alley near 101 Street and 105 Avenue in Edmonton on Sept. 2, 2020. Photo by David Bloom / Postmedia Article content Every minute that ticks by between an overdose and a resuscitating injection is a minute closer to a brain injury.
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Which means that signs of “social disorder” and people obviously impacted by addiction and mental illness on plain display on some Edmonton streets, or hidden in some middle-class homes, may be suffering from traumatic brain injury.
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