EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE –
May 3, 2023 – From the couch of his addiction treatment center, 49-year-old Michael Padrta is hopeful to finally be on a new path after almost 40 years of drug use and two stints in prison.
May 3, 2023 – From the couch of his addiction treatment center, 49-year-old Michael Padrta is hopeful to finally be on a new path after almost 40 years of drug use and two stints in prison. “Around three years ago, when the pandemic hit, it was mostly heroin,” said Rhonda Woodside, a nurse practitioner, who specializes in addiction treatment. “And then heroin started having fentanyl in it, now I would say 95% of what we see is just straight fentanyl.”
Woodside works in Eugene at Ideal Option, a company with clinics across the United States, where providers prescribe medications to help treat addiction to drugs or alcohol.
“They come in and say, ‘I’m either smoking the fentanyl powder’ or ‘I’m smoking or snorting the fake oxy pills on the street,’ which contain fentanyl,” Woodside said.
