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 LOS ANGELES COUNTY MONKEYPOX CASE AND VACCINE SUMMARY (WEEKLY) Updated on Fridays. Data as of August 26, 2022. Total Cumulative Cases 1,323** Data as of August 26, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. **Excludes Long Beach and Pasadena Burbank is SPA 2

1. How can you tell the difference between a "Narcan needed" person vs a Diabetic hypoglycemic person? 2. Does HGN & VGN help distinguish concurrent drug use, example: stimulant & opioid?  3. Opioid / Narcon Pharmacology Naloxone also binds to opiate receptors and acts as a  competitive inhibitor  to opiates, both natural and synthetic. 8.7.22 Monkey Dust [MDPHP] Categories: CNS Stimulants, Drug Trends,  Monkey Dust is a Class B drug. This means that it is illegal to possess and also to sell, give away or possess with intent to supply it. MDPHP is a synthetic stimulant that goes by the street name monkey dust*. It is a stimulant of the cathinone class** that is known to be dangerous and addictive. It was originally constructed in the 1960’s until someone pulled the old research into this drug and started manufacturing it. Usually, it is Chinese chemists that manufacture it and ship it to the US and European countries. Monkey Dust is similar to MDPV and is b...

Where are the apologies?? You shouldn't have to attend a primarily Black high school or college to receive the correct, factual, and historical events of the United States. United? Right ... or should I say White?!  We teach kids sex education in middle school, but the truth about what's been done to Black people is not on the roster? Why not? Why is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment not included in 8th grade science when STDs are in the sex education curriculum? I'm goin to list all the Black historical events that I learned, mostly from a History Professor at Woodbury who was full-time at Cal Poly Pomona.  Phillis Wheatley -- 1st published Black poet [why wasn't I taught this in high school?] Although she was an enslaved person, Phillis Wheatley Peters was one of the best-known poets in pre-19th century America. Educated and enslaved in the household of prominent Boston commercialist John Wheatley, lionized in New England and England, with presses in both places publi...