In the battle to wean patients off opioids, dosage has emerged as a critical issue... READ MORE›
Last month at the White House, President Donald Trump declared opioid abuse a national public health emergency... READ MORE›
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›
Soon afterwards, the police arrived at the house in Pickering, near Toronto, with a search warrant... READ MORE›
'This is why so many people are dying' Data show dramatic rise in street drugs testing positive for fentanyl... READ MORE›
Mr. Trump has accused China of being the main source of the flood of cheap and deadly fentanyl into America... READ MORE›
This year an estimated 65,000 Americans will die after overdosing on opioids, whether it be prescription painkillers or illegal street drugs like heroin... READ MORE›
U.S. prosecutors leveled charges Thursday against the billionaire founder of an opioid medication maker that has faced increasing scrutiny from authorities... READ MORE›
Said Dr. Jeff Turnbull, the chief physician for Ottawa Inner City Health, which provides health care to the homeless... READ MORE›
Trump declares opioids a US public health emergency... READ MORE›
I am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis, he said... READ MORE›
Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency... READ MORE›
It will also expand access to medical services in rural areas and shift some federal HIV money to help addicts... READ MORE›
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›
Trump said in August that he would declare opioid abuse a national emergency... READ MORE›
The human and economic toll of the U.S.'s opioid crisis has only widened since President Donald Trump swept into the Oval Office promising solutions... READ MORE›
FDA hopes to lift stigma on using drugs as treatment for opioid addiction in face of resistance... READ MORE›
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›
Other drug death hotspots with the biggest cuts are Gateshead 51 percent, Sefton 51 percent, Portsmouth 38 percent, and Durham 38 percent ... READ MORE›
America's first Opium Commissioner Hamilton Wright is at left... READ MORE›
Interesting in the light of the government's drug strategy but puzzling in that neither piece mentioned alcohol... READ MORE›
Operation Pangea involved 197 police, customs and health regulatory authorities from 123 countries and led to 25 million illicit and counterfeit medicines being seized... READ MORE›
Trump calls for drug test ahead of next debate, says clinton was 'pumped up'... READ MORE›
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›
Nine people have died in Vancouver in the past 24 hours from an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl opioid, officials say... READ MORE›
Jones has decided not to let his deputies carry Narcan, a potentially lifesaving medicine for those suffering opioid overdoses... READ MORE›
It took the sisters two years to get into the program, which used suboxone to transition them off fentanyl... READ MORE›
Figures from government and UNODC show 10 percent increase in poppy cultivation and 91 percent decrease in eradication... READ MORE›
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›
Nice work, says Lynch as the man comes back to life after repeated shots of Narcan... READ MORE›
We try to place everyone as easily and quickly as possible, says Leonard Campanello, the chief of police in Gloucester... READ MORE›
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›
Vancouver officials held a news conference Friday to address the growing crisis of drug overdose deaths... READ MORE›
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›
Health Minister Terry Lake announced more money for treatment beds and said the federal government needs to step up... READ MORE›
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›
Now people come to Kensington from around the city, state and country in search of heroin... READ MORE›
Antwerp now has 'text lanes' for pedestrians who are glued to their mobile phones... READ MORE›
Fentanyl is a highly potent drug that many recreational drug users take unknowingly, putting them at high risk of an overdose... READ MORE›
SHANGHAI Ordering illegal drugs from China is as easy as typing on a keyboard... READ MORE›
Ottawa public health recorded 15 suspected cases recorded in 72 hours... READ MORE›
The people in the photos are users of cocaine, heroin or oxycodone - a prescription opioid... READ MORE›
Several women going through withdrawal pleaded to go home, swearing they would never touch drugs again... READ MORE›
Britain has Europe's highest proportion of heroin addicts and problematic use of novel psychoactive substances, say reports by the European drugs agency... READ MORE›
Do you think the SNL sketch on heroin crossed the line?... READ MORE›
More than half of addicts given heroin were off it within three years... READ MORE›
Fentanyl, a synthetic opiate, is up to 100 times stronger than heroin and is sometimes prescribed as a painkiller for the terminally ill... READ MORE›
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›
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›
When the police turned up, they took the man and woman into an office in the hotel... READ MORE›
Health officials, police and civic leaders in Glasgow are pressing ahead with plans to open the UK's first fix room for heroin addicts... READ MORE›
Erika Hurt, 25, was found by police as in Hope, Indiana, on Saturday still holding a syringe in her hand... READ MORE›
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