July 17, 2018 CDC chief says fentanyl almost killed his son The head of the nation's top public health agency says the opioid epidemic will be one of his priorities, and he revealed a personal reason for it: His son almost died from taking cocaine contaminated with the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
July 16, 2018 Switzerland weighs relaxing marijuana ban Switzerland, which permits low potency cannabis but bans most marijuana for recreational use, aims to allow pilot studies on ways to relax its laws, its government said on Wednesday.
July 12, 2018 NC town battles opioid epidemic by using robots to test people’s poop In 2016 more than 33,000 opioid related deaths occurred across the U.S., but the town of Cary, located on the outskirts of North Carolina’s capital, is the first to use a special device to test sewer water in an attempt to combat the opioid crisis.
July 3, 2018 Ex-Drug Czars Bill Bennett, John Walters: Mr. Trump, please don’t legalize marijuana at the federal level President Trump should refuse—it’s a bad deal with unsustainable consequences.
July 2, 2018 Pennsylvania man finds hope after years of addiction and despair The flight of industry has decimated a small Pennsylvania town, and the inundation of opioids has its back against the wall – and some of the city’s men are paying the price.
July 1, 2018 Battling the despair of opioid addiction in an unexpected place Sam Hall sat on his narrow bed, his thin frame propped up against the concrete wall, periodically glancing up from a well-worn paperback novel.
June 28, 2018 70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in US unaccounted for since 1999, study says The opioid crisis plaguing the U.S. may be even worse than health officials previously thought, with tens of thousands of opioid-related deaths possibly going unreported from 1999 to 2015.
June 26, 2018 Poison control centers report spike in kids' exposure to addiction drug From 2007 to 2016, more than 11,000 children and adolescents in the U.S. were exposed to buprenorphine, a drug that's used to treat opioid-use disorders, a new study finds.
June 25, 2018 Retailers experiment with blue lights to deter drug use The blue lights are meant to discourage people from using drugs in store bathrooms by making it more difficult for them to see their veins.
June 24, 2018 Should people with drug addictions be forced into rehab? Mandatory drug treatment programs are on the rise. But can a person truly recover when forced into treatment?
