The US Senate recently passed the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014, a bill that would make anabolic steroids a controlled substance. This bill allows more anabolic steroids to be under DEA regulation. ...
Lawmakers in Texas have proposed a bill that would make “doctor shopping” for prescription medications much harder for patients. The new legislation dictates that doctors monitor databases that “will keep track of patients who ...
Michigan has recently passed new statutes against home meth labs and drugged driving aimed at addressing the state’s drug problem. The state’s growing meth problem prompted this step towards creating a first-line defense against repeat ...
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) has reported shutting down twenty-eight meth labs in 2014, which is twelve more than in 2013 (Gaita, 2015). According to The Fix, “this number does not include the number ...
A potential law in Oklahoma could crack down on people convicted with a DUI by preventing them from purchasing or consuming alcohol. The bill is championed by Senator Patrick Anderson (R-OK) and will “require ...
A study conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network, Dr. Andrew Saxon at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seatte, and Dr. Walter Ling at the University ...
Naltrexone, the medicine used to treat opioid addiction, has been used in Russia and in some treatment centers in the United States for some time now. It is an opioid receptor antagonist that blocks opioids ...
A home-based recovery program by Aware Recovery Care in Madison, Connecticut, showed positive outcomes with its first round of patients. The program consists of a visiting nurse who comes to the patient’s home “two ...
According to the Utah Department of Health, Utah experienced an increase in prescription drug deaths of over 400 percent in the past decade (2014). This increase makes prescription drug overdose one of the main ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently issued guidelines to make naloxone, an opioid antagonist used to prevent overdoses, more available. Hospital, first response, and emergency care workers as well as state and local ...
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