Last month, a coalition called Sisters Thrive was launched by the First Lady of New York City, Chirlane McCray. It is a branch of her mental health program, ThriveNYC, and is a volunteer-based effort to ...
Last month, The Sentencing Project released a report titled “Opioids: Treating an Illness, Ending a War,” which addressed the lack of rehabilitative services in the prison system. The report found that there is a shortage ...
Research conducted by the US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) determined “that an experimental heroin vaccine” successfully “induced antibodies that prevented the drug from crossing the ...
The opioid crisis in the US has led many to wonder if the growing legalization of medical and recreational marijuana will see cannabis replacing opioids as pain medication. According to an article in Scientific ...
Last week, researchers from the United Kingdom and Portugal published a study in Frontiers in Psychology that examined how cultural factors relate to varying levels of alcohol consumption. According to Science Daily, “Using alcohol ...
A study recently published in Frontiers in Public Health found that African American/Black and Latino adults living in “high-risk urban settings” are actually not especially at risk for developing substance use problems compared to the ...
A new trend in “beating” drug tests for methamphetamine has emerged in South Dakota: “baking soda bombs.” Baking soda bombs are a combination of water, bleach, and baking soda that “medical experts and law ...
The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) is adding a unique measure to its orientations for all incoming transfer and freshman students: mental health screenings. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block stated, “To our knowledge, no ...
Researchers from Surrey University in England worked with the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Intelligent Fingerprinting to design a fingerprint test capable of detecting cocaine and other drug use (Burch, 2017; Johnston, 2017). The test ...
Late last month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that, “in partnership with international regulatory and law enforcement agencies,” it cracked down on over five hundred illegal online pharmacies marketing opioids and other prescription ...
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