Items tagged with opioids
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| Beijing asks Canada to help stem flow of illicit marijuana to China [30.04.2018] | Chinese officials have been quietly grilling Canada about illicit marijuana flowing to their country, prompting Ottawa to agree to work with them on ... |
| An opioid crisis foretold [21.04.2018] | Today’s opioid crisis is already the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Opioid overdoses killed more than 45,000 people in the 12 months th ... |
| Opioids prescribed less in states where medical marijuana legal, studies find [02.04.2018] | In one study, researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, used data from Medicare Part D, a government-run prescription drug program for people ... |
| Daily cannabis use could delay at-risk youth from moving to higher risk drug use: study [29.03.2018] | Consuming cannabis every day could delay at-risk youth from moving on to injecting more dangerous drugs, according to a new study that casts doubt up ... |
| Vancouver mayor calls for drug decriminalization after record year for opioid overdoses [28.03.2018] | Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is calling for the decriminalization of personal drug use and possession following the release of new numbers that s ... |
| The war on drugs breeds crafty traffickers [26.03.2018] | Politicians often escalate drug war rhetoric to show voters that they are doing something. But it is rare to ignore generations of lessons as Preside ... |
| Trump calls for death penalties for drug dealers as focus of opioids plan [19.03.2018] | Donald Trump called for some drug dealers to receive the death penalty in a new opioids policy rollout. “We’re wasting our time if we don’t get tough ... |
| Feds say 5 NYC doctors took bribes from drug maker to prescribe opioid [16.03.2018] | Five Manhattan doctors were paid more than $800,000 by a pharmaceutical company to prescribe a spray version of the highly potent and addictive opioi ... |
| There’s an opioid abuse problem unfolding in African cities and it’s not getting the attention it needs [16.03.2018] | Africa remains one of the regions least served with effective pain relief medicine and although Tramadol is not the strongest of analgesics, it is a ... |
| FDA is using 'bad science' by claiming kratom is an opioid [09.03.2018] | Last month, the Food the plant has been imported for years because of its popularity and safe use in Asia. |
| New studies show that legal cannabis access reduces opioid abuse [04.03.2018] | Scientific data is growing nearly by the day in support of the notion that legalized cannabis can mitigate opioid use and abuse. For instance, among ... |
| Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime [25.02.2018] | Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic ha ... |
| Let cities open safe injection sites [24.02.2018] | One of the most consistent patterns in the more than 64,000 deaths attributed to opioid and other drug overdoses in 2016 was that the victims’ last m ... |
| Opioids and methamphetamine: a tale of two crises [24.02.2018] | The unchecked acceleration of opioid-related deaths in the USA is, by many measures, the worst of times. Prescriptions peaked in 2012 at more than 25 ... |
| To cut drug deaths, city considers sanctioned places to shoot up [09.02.2018] | In 2016, the opioid epidemic claimed 1,374 lives in New York City. That’s roughly four drug overdose deaths each day. One death every seven hours. Ne ... |
| Philadelphia aims to become first US city to legalize safe injection sites [06.02.2018] | Philadelphia officials are pushing an effort to make the city the first in the U.S. to allow drug users to shoot up at a medically supervised facilit ... |
| A huge step backward on opioids [24.01.2018] | The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic o ... |
| On the hunt for poppies In Mexico — America's biggest heroin supplier [14.01.2018] | Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state is now the top source of heroin for the American drug epidemic, which resulted in more than 64,000 overdose deat ... |
| Desperate cities consider 'safe injection' sites for opioid users [10.01.2018] | Philadelphia officials are advocating to become the first in the U.S. city to open a supervised injection site, where people suffering from heroin or ... |
| US turns to Trump targets – UN, China and Mexico – for help in opioid crisis [07.01.2018] | The president declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, with most recent government estimates suggesting the more than 64,000 fatal overd ... |
| The opioid crisis is getting worse, particularly for black Americans [22.12.2017] | The epidemic of drug overdoses, often perceived as a largely white rural problem, made striking inroads among black Americans last year — particularl ... |
| B.C. pilot project to distribute clean opioids to people at high risk of overdose [20.12.2017] | Ottawa has approved a pilot project that will allow health officials in B.C. to distribute clean opioids to drug users to use as they please, marking ... |
| Supervised injection sites could stop untold opioid-related deaths [01.12.2017] | In addition to the legal issues, the heavy stigma around heroin and other opioids driving the nation's overdose crisis can push individuals into the ... |
| White House says true cost of opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504bn [20.11.2017] | The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504bn. In an analysis, the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure i ... |
| Ottawa approves temporary overdose-prevention sites in bid to address opioid crisis [16.11.2017] | Ottawa will let provinces and territories open temporary sites for drug-overdose prevention while their applications for permanent facilities are pro ... |
| The truth about the US ‘opioid crisis’ – prescriptions aren’t the problem [07.11.2017] | The news media is awash with hysteria about the opioid crisis (or opioid epidemic). But what exactly are we talking about? If you Google “opioid cris ... |
| People are dying because of ignorance, not because of opioids [19.10.2017] | The vast majority of opioid users do not become addicts. Users’ chances of becoming addicted increase if they are white, male, young and unemployed a ... |
| New data continues to support the idea that legal cannabis access leads to fewer opioid-related deaths [17.10.2017] | A recent study reflects a growing body of information that suggests that cannabis access contributes to a reduction in opioid-related deaths. Researc ... |
| The drug industry’s triumph over the DEA [15.10.2017] | In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its ... |
| More than 25 million people dying in agony without morphine every year [12.10.2017] | More than 25 million people, including 2.5 million children, die in agony every year around the world, for want of morphine or other palliative care, ... |
| Recognized for controversy, Vancouver's former drug czar says the fentanyl crisis requires legalizing heroin [11.10.2017] | “Heroin at your corner store.” That was the title of a speech that Donald MacPherson delivered in acceptance of the 2017 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize ... |
| Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
| B.C.'s overdose crisis may be 'new normal,' no matter what politicians say [30.09.2017] | British Columbia has been in a public health emergency since April 14, 2016. At the time, the government said it was implemented to "help prevent fut ... |
| The first count of fentanyl deaths in 2016: Up 540% in three years [02.09.2017] | Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to ... |
| Fatal fentanyl overdoses rise as Australians turn to more potent painkillers [31.08.2017] | Concerns are growing that more Australians addicted to pharmaceutical painkillers are turning to highly potent forms of opioids, such as fentanyl. A ... |
| How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis [29.08.2017] | A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to a recent New York Times analysis. Annual overdose deaths in the US have already ... |
| Ottawa rejects expert calls to decriminalize illegal opioids [28.08.2017] | Ottawa says it has no plans to consider decriminalizing hard drugs, such as heroin, despite calls from local politicians, health officials and expert ... |
| Secret supervised drug injection facility has been operating at US site for years [08.08.2017] | For nearly three years, in an undisclosed US city, a social service agency has quietly been inviting people to inject illegal drugs at a clandestine ... |
| White House panel recommends declaring national emergency on opioids [31.07.2017] | President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis asked him to declare a national emergency to deal with the epidemic. The members of the bipartisan ... |
| Drug deaths in America are rising faster than ever [05.06.2017] | Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data c ... |
| Canada’s mayors call for speedy approval of proposals to address overdose crisis [25.05.2017] | Canada’s big-city mayors are calling for the expedited approval of new supervised drug-consumption sites, improved data collection and the expansion ... |
| Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis [21.05.2017] | Canada’s government has made it easier to open supervised drug injection sites across the country, offering communities a lifeline as they battle an ... |
| Cannabis may help wean people off crack, study finds [16.05.2017] | Cannabis has been identified as a potential substitute for users of legal or illicit opioids, but a new Vancouver-based study shows the drug may also ... |
| Baltimore homicide detectives to begin investigating drug overdoses [02.05.2017] | Baltimore Police have begun investigating overdoses in an effort to trace drugs back to dealers, joining a wave of Maryland law enforcement agencies ... |
| Drug controls are 'absolutely pathetic,' activist says regulation will save lives [25.04.2017] | A Vancouver based drug policy researcher has been working for decades to get the federal government to regulate illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine ... |
| It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs [25.04.2017] | As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need ... |
| Legalize heroin for 'less overdose deaths,’ forensic psychologist tells Vancouver conference [25.04.2017] | A forensic psychologist working with the Canadian prison system is calling for “radically different” approaches to B.C.’s overdose crisis, including ... |
| Ottawa doctor pioneers use of cannabis to help opioid addicts [16.04.2017] | The patients at Dr. Mark Ujjainwalla’s methadone clinic are trying to beat their addiction to heroin, narcotic painkillers and other opioid drugs, bu ... |
| Is Md. ready for 'heroin assisted therapy'? [10.04.2017] | The idea of giving heroin addicts heroin to keep them from crime and other dangers has never been popular with American politicians. Yet several West ... |
| B.C. mulls framework for expanded heroin-assisted treatment [06.04.2017] | Prescription heroin, a last-resort treatment for severe addiction currently restricted to only one clinic in all of North America, could one day be d ... |
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