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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›
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›
JAMIE BACON'S 'TRUE LOVE' DEAD OF 'ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE'
Madison Zoe Fine, 25,was found in a Richmond Hotel room on Dec. 1 before she could make it to a court hearing involving her boyfriend, Jamie Bacon... 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›
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›
WHITE HOUSE REPORT SAYS TRUE COST OF OPIOID EPIDEMIC TOPS $500 BILLION
Last month at the White House, President Donald Trump declared opioid abuse a national public health emergency... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN'S BOOMING HEROIN TRADE LEAVES TRAIL OF ADDICTION AT HOME
In 2001, the last year of its rule, the Taliban outlawed opium cultivation, but they have since reversed course... READ MORE›
FDA WARNS OF INJURY, DEATH WITH HERBAL SUPPLEMENT KRATOM
But the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that kratom carries similar risks, including addiction and death, and the agency is working to block shipments... READ MORE›
TRUMP DECLARES OPIOIDS A U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Trump declares opioids a US public health emergency... READ MORE›
TRUMP DECLARES OPIOID EPIDEMIC A NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency... 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›
OFFICIALS SAY TRUMP'S OPIOID EMERGENCY WON'T MEAN NEW MONEY
Utah wants to use video to connect rural patients with a Provo-based doctor trained to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid addiction... READ MORE›
FDA HOPES TO LIFT STIGMA ON USING DRUGS AS TREATMENT FOR OPIOID ADDICTION IN FACE OF RESISTANCE
FDA hopes to lift stigma on using drugs as treatment for opioid addiction in face of resistance... READ MORE›
ROGER CRYSTAL WENT TO BUSINESS SCHOOL TO LEARN HOW TO TREAT ADDICTION
He was lying there with his liver and intestines exposed, and all he wanted to do was shoot up on heroin, Crystal says... READ MORE›
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'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›
BRITISH BARON'S DAUGHTER SHOT DEAD IN PHILIPPINES
Aurora Moynihan UK peer's daughter shot dead in Philippines... 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›
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›
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›
CAN YOU FIND THESE 15 U.S. FOREIGN-POLICY HOT SPOTS?
Here's how it works For most questions if you point within a 10-mile radius of a spot we name you ll get 10 points... READ MORE›
PAKISTAN PASSES LONG-AWAITED ANTI-HONOUR KILLING LEGISLATION
The legislation, passed unanimously by the National Assembly, mandates life imprisonment even if the victim's relatives forgive the murderer... READ MORE›
DRUG FATALITIES HIGHEST WHERE TREATMENT CUTBACKS DEEPEST
Other drug death hotspots with the biggest cuts are Gateshead 51 percent, Sefton 51 percent, Portsmouth 38 percent, and Durham 38 percent ... READ MORE›
'THE GREATEST DRUG FIENDS IN THE WORLD'
America's first Opium Commissioner Hamilton Wright is at left... READ MORE›
OPIUM USE BOOMS IN AFGHANISTAN, CREATING A 'SILENT TSUNAMI' OF ADDICTED WOMEN
Several women going through withdrawal pleaded to go home, swearing they would never touch drugs again... READ MORE›
MONTREAL OPENS FIRST MOBILE SUPERVISED INJECTION CLINIC IN NORTH AMERICA
It's an emotional day, said Louis Letellier de St-Just of Cactus Montreal, the organisation responsible for one of the sites... READ MORE›
A SPACE TO SHOOT UP, BUT NO SPACE FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT
Jonathan worries he may die before getting into an Ottawa treatment bed... READ MORE›
BUT NOW EXPERTS FEAR THE PROGRAMME HERE IS BEING ABANDONED
More than half of addicts given heroin were off it within three years... READ MORE›
TRUMP CALLS OPIOIDS 'NO GOOD,' URGES PEOPLE NOT TO ABUSE THEM
Most opioid overdose deaths are linked to prescription pain pills, though use of heroin is growing rapidly, accounting for almost 13,000 deaths in 2015, according to NIDA... READ MORE›
BOSTON CHARITY PLANS TO OPEN US'S FIRST ROOM FOR SUPERVISED HEROIN HIGHS
A charity in Boston is planning to open the US's first drop in centre where heroin users could ride out a high under medical supervision... READ MORE›
QLD 'GAY PANIC' DEFENCE TO BE SCRAPPED
Under current Queensland legislation, accused murderers can use unwanted sexual advances as a partial defence... READ MORE›
DRUGS MULE MICHAELLA MCCOLLUM RETURNS TO IBIZA AND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
Convicted drugs mule Michaella McCollum has returned to the scene of her crime as she travelled to Ibiza... READ MORE›
MELBOURNE MOTHER PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDERING HER THREE CHILDREN IN LAKE CRASH
She also pleaded guilty to the attempted to murder of her six-year-old daughter on the same day, April 8, 2015... READ MORE›
JUDGE THROWS OUT CASE BECAUSE OF UNRELIABLE EVIDENCE
Judge Traverso told the court It is crucial for the state to prove that Mr Dewani entered into an agreement with Zola Tongo the taxi driver... READ MORE›
RODRIGO DUTERTE PULLS PHILIPPINE POLICE OUT OF BRUTAL WAR ON DRUGS
Donald Trump, however, has praised Duterte for what he said was an unbelievable job in a fight against illegal drugs... READ MORE›
DARK-WEB SALES GLUTTING U.S. MAILBOXES WITH DEADLY OPIOIDS
Latin American drug cartels are also getting synthetic opioids from Asia and moving them into the United States... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S 'CURE' FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS IS BOUND TO JUST MAKE IT WORSE
Many of those new heroin users are former prescription opioid users driven to a black-market alternative by the government's crackdown on painkiller prescriptions... READ MORE›
CHILD ABDUCTION AND MURDER DATA PAINT CHILLING NEW PORTRAIT
Child abduction and murder data paint chilling new portrait... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES: PRESIDENT DUTERTE'S SON DENIES DRUG SMUGGLING
It comes amid President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown on drug crime... READ MORE›
HEROIN USERS JUMPED BY 300,000 IN THE US OVER THE LAST DECADE
Experts say that reductions in prescription painkillers likely is a contributing factor to the spike in heroin use... READ MORE›
FARKHUNDA MURDER: AFGHAN COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCES
On the same day in May that the four men were given the death penalty, the judge sentenced eight defendants to 16 years in prison and acquitted 18 others... READ MORE›
PHOTOS OF THE JEWISH REFUGEES NO ONE WANTED
Pre-World War II photos of the Jewish refugees no one wanted... READ MORE›