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 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›
Overdose deaths from all opioids, not just fentanyl, hit 2,304 in the UK, the highest number in Europe... READ MORE›
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›
Trump declares opioids a US public health emergency... READ MORE›
Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency... 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›
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›
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›
It took the sisters two years to get into the program, which used suboxone to transition them off fentanyl... READ MORE›
France train shooting US soldiers speak of the moment they stopped gunman and 'beat him until he was unconscious'... 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›
Fentanyl is a highly potent drug that many recreational drug users take unknowingly, putting them at high risk of an overdose... READ MORE›
Ottawa public health recorded 15 suspected cases recorded in 72 hours... READ MORE›
But China and some other Asian countries, including Thailand, have problems with ketamine abuse... READ MORE›
Drug producer known as Beeker says underground chemists are steps ahead of the police when it comes to the movement of illicit drugs on the streets... READ MORE›
The people in the photos are users of cocaine, heroin or oxycodone - a prescription opioid... READ MORE›
America's first Opium Commissioner Hamilton Wright is at left... 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›
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 senior police official said they were considering action against the bus driver for not driving to the nearest police station... READ MORE›
Erika Hurt, 25, was found by police as in Hope, Indiana, on Saturday still holding a syringe in her hand... READ MORE›
Why are death rates going up for middle-aged less-educated white American women, given that mortality rates are generally improving?... READ MORE›
Many low-income and middle-income countries continue to fail to provide adequate opioid analgesic medicine for pain, the report said... READ MORE›
The highest rates for regular online gaming among teenage boys are to be found in Denmark 64 percent, Sweden 58 percent, Estonia 55 percent, Norway 52 percent and Finland 51 percent ... READ MORE›
The inside story of the heroin overdose photograph that shocked the world... READ MORE›
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›
One of those people is county legislator Jason Garnar, who has also dealt with the devastation from heroin... READ MORE›
Experts from Ottawa Public Health will also deliver a presentation on the recent overdoses... READ MORE›
India has a serious heroin problem in the northern state of Punjab... READ MORE›
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