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Hepatic Encephalopathy: When Confusion Isn't Drinking
Ammonia from liver disease can look exactly like intoxication. A family guide to grades, triggers, lactulose, rifaximin, driving, and when it's an emergency.
14 min read
Guides
Wet Brain: Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome and Alcohol-Related Brain Damage
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a thiamine-deficiency brain injury. What families notice first, why treatment is so often late, and what recovery looks like.
13 min read
Guides
Whippets and Laughing Gas: How Nitrous Oxide Damages Nerves, and Why a Normal B12 Test Can Miss It
Nitrous oxide feels harmless and legal. Here is how it disables vitamin B12, what the nerve damage looks like at home, and the two tests that catch it early.
15m
Guides
Stimulant Overdose: Why Naloxone Doesn't Work and What Actually Saves a Life
Meth and cocaine overdoses kill by heat, heart and seizures, not slowed breathing. What families should do in the first ten minutes, and why 911 matters.
14m
Guides
Hepatic Encephalopathy: When Confusion Isn't Drinking
Ammonia from liver disease can look exactly like intoxication. A family guide to grades, triggers, lactulose, rifaximin, driving, and when it's an emergency.
14m
News
Every Methadone Clinic in Montana Now Belongs to One Company
Federal files show all four of Montana's methadone clinics belong to one private-equity-backed chain, and research finds buying clinics adds no supply.
8m
News
Oregon's Largest Treatment Center for Mothers Closes as Perinatal Beds Shrink
The Letty Owings Center closes after 37 years, capping a year in which Oregon lost roughly 20% of its residential beds for pregnant and parenting people.
8m
News
Bernalillo County Votes to Run Jail Health Care Itself, With Addiction Treatment Inside the Scope
Commissioners picked a county-led model for care at the Metropolitan Detention Center, naming substance use treatment, peer support and re-entry as services.
8m
Alerts
Candy-Shaped Meth in New Jersey: What the Halloween Warning Really Means
New Jersey police warned that candy-shaped meth tablets are circulating. What the warning means for parents, and what to do if a child swallows a pill.
7m
Alerts
A Vape Liquid Called 'CEB' Is Circulating in South Mississippi. It Isn't an Opioid, and Naloxone Won't Reverse It
A Mississippi sheriff's office is warning about MDMB-4en-PINACA, a synthetic cannabinoid sold as 'CEB.' Here is what it does and what to do in an emergency.
8m
Alerts
Dane County Alert: Overdoses Reported as Cocaine Use Showed Opioid Symptoms
Dane County issued an overdose spike alert after five EMS overdose calls in under 24 hours. Several reported cocaine use, but symptoms were opioid-like.
8m
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