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OXYCONTIN MAKER STOPS PROMOTING OPIOIDS
Its sales representatives will now focus on Symproic, a drug for treating opioid-induced constipation, and other potential nonopioid products, Purdue said... READ MORE›
FENTANYL ADDS DEADLY KICK TO OPIOID WOES IN BRITAIN
Several people in Hull who said they had collapsed after trying fentanyl vowed never to take it again... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | CANADA'S FIX TO THE OPIOID CRISIS: VENDING MACHINES THAT DISTRIBUTE PRESCRIPTION OPIOIDS TO ADDICTS
Death rates from drug overdoses in British Columbia are almost as high as those in the states hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic in the United States... READ MORE›
FINNS TEST NASAL SPRAY IN BID TO KICK GAMBLING HABIT AFTER PILL PROVED TOO SLOW
HELSINKI - Finnish researchers on Monday said they were to launch a study to see if gambling addiction can be treated with a fast-working nasal spray... READ MORE›
NO NEW FUNDS BUT NEW DATA HELPING OFFICIALS TARGET 'DRUG-DEALING' DOCTORS AS OPIOID EPIDEMIC KILLS 100 A DAY
Another addiction expert, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, said prosecutors' emphasis on drug-dealing doctors is appropriate but inadequate on its own... READ MORE›
CHINA: U.S. SHOULD CURB DEMAND FOR DRUGS FUELING ITS OPIOID EPIDEMIC
China and the U.S. have worked to build a close working relationship to fight global flows of illicit synthetic drugs, but their collaboration remains fraught... READ MORE›
SOARING OVERDOSE DEATHS CUT U.S. LIFE EXPECTANCY FOR 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR
The CDC also reported --West Virginia continued to be the state with highest drug overdose death rate, with a rate of 52 deaths per 100,000 state residents in 2016... READ MORE›
DEADLY PAINKILLER DRUG FENTANYL HAS 'GROWING MARKET IN EUROPE'
Overdose deaths from all opioids, not just fentanyl, hit 2,304 in the UK, the highest number in Europe... READ MORE›
AS THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CHANGES, SO DOES A PRIVATE PRISON GIANT
Among GEO's 54 residential reentry centers, 42 offered such programming, and 21 focused predominantly on substance abuse... READ MORE›
PORTUGALS RADICAL DRUGS POLICY IS WORKING. WHY HASNT THE WORLD COPIED IT?
Alvaro Pereira was working as a family doctor in Olhao in southern Portugal... READ MORE›
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DONALD TRUMP CALLS FOR DRUG TEST AHEAD OF NEXT DEBATE
Trump calls for drug test ahead of next debate, says clinton was 'pumped up'... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP MADE ME GREAT AGAIN
He should also heed the call for expanding public health services for the 22 million Americans and their families facing addiction... READ MORE›
'EL CHAPO' ARREST SPARKS HOMICIDE SURGE AS FACTIONS FIGHT TO FILL VACUUM
Mexico had just started emerging from its bloody battle with drug cartels, with murder rates dropping for four consecutive years from 2011 to 2014... READ MORE›
'ADDICTION CLAIMED HIS LIFE': SCOTT OAKE OPENS UP ABOUT SON'S BATTLE WITH DRUGS
Bruce had been assaulted over a drug debt, so he turned to his parents... READ MORE›
AMID OPIOID EPIDEMIC, WHITE HOUSE MAY CUT DRUG CONTROL OFFICE BUDGET
Drug office budget cuts being considered by Trump White House... READ MORE›
NINE DIE IN VANCOUVER IN 24 HOURS FROM FENTANYL OPIOID OVERDOSE
Nine people have died in Vancouver in the past 24 hours from an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl opioid, officials say... READ MORE›
PREGABALIN, KNOWN AS 'NEW VALIUM', TO BE MADE CLASS C DRUG AFTER DEATHS
The letter warned of the risk of addiction for both pregabalin and a similar drug called gabapentin... READ MORE›
'LONG-TERM TREATMENT SAVED MY LIFE,' SAYS FORMER B.C. ADDICT WHO OVERDOSED ON FENTANYL 17 TIMES
It took the sisters two years to get into the program, which used suboxone to transition them off fentanyl... READ MORE›
43 PERCENT RISE IN ESTIMATED OPIUM HARVEST
Figures from government and UNODC show 10 percent increase in poppy cultivation and 91 percent decrease in eradication... READ MORE›
U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS PEOPLE SHOULD JUST 'SAY NO' TO OPIOIDS
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Heritage Foundation's Legal Strategy Forum in Washington, U.S., October 26, 2017... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO LAUNCH NEW EFFORT ON HEROIN CRISIS
Yet after Congress approved landmark legislation in July for expanded drug addiction treatment and prevention, it did not include the 181 million to actually fund the measure... READ MORE›
'A SMALL BAND-AID ON A BIG CUT'
Nice work, says Lynch as the man comes back to life after repeated shots of Narcan... READ MORE›
MILLIONS OF PATIENTS FACE PAIN AND WITHDRAWAL AS OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS PLUMMET
In the battle to wean patients off opioids, dosage has emerged as a critical issue... READ MORE›
NO ONE STARTS OUT WITH A NEEDLE IN THEIR ARM
We try to place everyone as easily and quickly as possible, says Leonard Campanello, the chief of police in Gloucester... READ MORE›
THESE ARE THE WORLD'S CHEAPEST PLACES TO BUY DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES
Bloomberg mined its own research, the annual World Drug Report published by the United Nations along with data from the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
DURHAM POLICE WILL GIVE ADDICTS HEROIN TO INJECT IN 'SHOOTING GALLERIES'
A part government-funded pilot scheme in Darlington, London and Brighton involving 127 chronic addicts found that giving them heroin significantly reduced both their drug usage and crime... READ MORE›
TED CRUZ WANTS EL CHAPO TO PAY FOR TRUMP'S BORDER WALL
Ted Cruz wants to build the border wall using a different kind of brick... READ MORE›
FENTANYL SPIRAL: HOW THE GUILT AND SHAME OF ADDICTION STOLE A B.C.'S MAN'S LIFE
She says a lot of it has to do with how the health care system treats addiction... READ MORE›
AS OVERDOSE DEATHS HIT RECORD LEVELS, DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICES FACE MASSIVE CUTS
Its 2016 annual report, published last week, which also aggregates data from Turkey and Norway, found the UK also had the highest proportion of heroin addicts... READ MORE›
AS AN OPEN-AIR HEROIN CAMP IS CLOSED, OPTIONS NARROW
Now people come to Kensington from around the city, state and country in search of heroin... READ MORE›
FENTANYL DEATHS ARE A CANADA-WIDE 'DISASTER'
Fentanyl is a highly potent drug that many recreational drug users take unknowingly, putting them at high risk of an overdose... READ MORE›
MAKERS OF OXYCONTIN, PERCOCET SUED BY U.S. GOVERNMENTS OVER OPIOID CRISIS
Whenever an autopsy is done in Sullivan County, in northeast Tennessee, the report is sent to the district attorney... READ MORE›
INDIAN STUDENT DRAGS DRUNK ATTACKER TO POLICE BY HIS HAIR
I also asked the police officers to teach the accused a lesson so that he would not dare to molest a woman ever again... READ MORE›
FIRST INTERNET ADDICTION REHAB CLINIC OPENS IN ALGERIA
Nobody has spontaneously visited us to be cured of internet dependency, only because no one knows about digital addiction... READ MORE›
DRUG CZAR NOMINEE COULD BE IN LIMBO AFTER REPORT ON DRUG INDUSTRY TIES
Manchin calls on Trump to withdraw drug czar nomination, saying Marino is unfit for job and can't be trusted to confront opioid epidemic... READ MORE›
OTTAWA HOSPITAL SEES SPIKE IN SUSPECTED FENTANYL OVERDOSES
Ottawa public health recorded 15 suspected cases recorded in 72 hours... READ MORE›
IS SUGAR REALLY AS ADDICTIVE AS COCAINE? SCIENTISTS ROW OVER EFFECT ON BODY AND BRAIN
Heated debate has greeted an article in a medical journal suggesting sugar should be considered an addictive drug, as experts deride the claims as 'absurd'... READ MORE›
TRUMP DECLARES OPIOIDS A U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Trump declares opioids a US public health emergency... READ MORE›
'THERE IS LIFE AFTER DRUGS': A MESSAGE FOR TEENS ADDICTED TO FENTANYL
And Smith has some advice for the Kanata teens who have recently spoken out about their own fentanyl addictions... READ MORE›
'THEY BROUGHT ME BACK AGAIN': ADDICTS WHO OD REVIVED ON THE SPOT AT POP-UP SAFE INJECTION SITES
Fentanyl, which is exponentially more potent than heroin, is behind a huge spike in overdose deaths across the country... READ MORE›