The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently reported three overdose deaths in Arizona linked to the designer drug U-47700. This is the first time authorities have detected usage of the drug in Arizona. The synthetic ...
After Pennsylvania established a drug monitoring program across the state, prescriptions for opioid painkillers are on the decline after only a few months. Though the program was passed by Pennsylvania state legislature in 2014, ...
Inmates throughout the state of Maryland will be learning to save lives by administering naloxone, the overdose reversal drug, starting this month. According to the Baltimore Sun, inmates on their way out of the ...
A recent study in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found that a prescription medication used to treat sleep disorders like sleep apnea and narcolepsy might be helpful to treat those with food addiction. ...
A study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that “more than 21 percent of medical marijuana users reside in states that have not legalized its use,” according to ...
In his newest report, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among adolescents a “major public health concern” (Konow, 2016). According the report, e-cigarettes are the “most commonly used ...
A new, interactive, online tool called Decisions in Recovery: Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder has been launched by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to provide people with information on “the role ...
Seattle, Washington is attempting to be the first city in America to open supervised injection facilities (SIFs) in order to reduce blood-borne diseases and fatal overdoses. Only eight countries in the world currently utilize ...
The federal government has awarded $978,000 to the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) to “reduce recidivism among state prison inmates with a history of substance use disorder” (Gaita, 2016). The grant will fund a ...
Last month Virginia declared the abuse of opiates as a public health emergency. This announcement came one week after the Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health. Virginia Health Commissioner Dr. Marissa Levine ...
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