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Emergency Medicine educational podcast. We are committed to providing high quality education to improve the care of the emergency patient in Maine, northern New England and beyond.
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Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
In this podcast we sit down the ED toxicologist Ryan Marino to talk about this phenomenon in the media of "fentanyl hysteria"- a trend of fear-mongering, exaggerated reporting, and misinformation.
Check out our post on the Down East EM blog for shownotes, references, and more.
Examples of Fentanyl Hysteria reporting:
San Fran Chronicle Article on Police OD
CNN Article on Deputy and EMT exposure
Author: Jason Hine MD
Peer Review: Jeff Holmes MD
3 years ago
A really good friend of mine has "fetanyl hysteria". It's really sad. We've all tried to help but it's so bad that his mom is just sectioning him all the time. I have to say I'm from Massachusetts an I realized my friend was a completely different person after he'd get high. This past winter a tree came out of the ground when the snow was way too heavy. So I'm driving behind a plow an he's out of his truck looking really hard down the st. My friend had the tree like Braveheart running down st.