Items tagged with drug testing
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| 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... |
| Plans for heroin to be prescribed to addicts in West Midlands [12.02.2018] | Doctors in the West Midlands could soon be prescribing heroin for addicts, who would be invited to inject themselves with clean syringes in drug cons... |
| 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... |
| Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho... |
| Testing of illicit drugs to be done at Australian event for first time [22.09.2017] | The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government has agreed to allow pill testing at a coming music festival, in an effort to reduce deaths and harm... |
| We already know how to stop people dying from drugs – but the Government refuses to do it [02.08.2017] | Last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. More than half of these deaths involved an opiate, such as heroi... |
| Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade [13.06.2017] | For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge ... |
| More fentanyl being found in MDMA, crystal meth in Victoria [12.06.2017] | When Victoria pharmacist Alain Vincent began testing local street drugs for the presence of fentanyl, he knew it would be found in heroin. He was sur... |
| An experiment helps heroin users test their street drugs for fentanyl [16.05.2017] | Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is "similar to morphine but can be 50 to 100 times more potent," according to the National Institute on Drug Abus... |
| Pot ban on drivers won’t work, health experts say [07.11.2016] | It would be unrealistic to bar drivers from having any trace of marijuana in their system when it becomes legal in Canada, as B.C. has suggested, bec... |
| Drug-testing at music festivals: Cocaine or concrete? [29.07.2016] | Backstage at many of Britain’s summer music festivals, suspicious pills and powders seized from tents are analysed by lab technicians. Usually it is ... |
| Ecstasy is getting stronger, drug testing clinic warns [02.05.2016] | The amount of active ingredients in ecstasy pills in the Netherlands has almost doubled in 10 years, according to the Trimbos addiction institute, wh... |
| Pill testing trial to begin at Sydney music festivals, vows drug expert Alex Wodak [27.02.2016] | The Australian drug expert who pioneered the nation's first legal injecting centre is on a collision course with the Baird government and NSW Police ... |
| Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy [26.02.2015] | Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement about the failures of Canada's drug policy is mostly on point. It’s just the last bit he gets wrong: “I thi... |
| New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation [31.08.2013] | On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, ma... |
| Experts: Zero-tolerance on ‘cannabis driving’ too severe [04.11.2012] | Experts are questioning the severity of a zero-tolerance policy towards those caught driving with detectable levels of illegal drugs in their bodies,... |
| Is banning legal highs effective? [19.01.2012] | New psychoactive substances (commonly known as legal highs) are spreading across Europe with growing speed. Between 1997 and 2010 the early-warning s... |
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