Black patients were less likely to receive higher doses. This may reflect inequities in health care or misconceptions among patients that higher doses are unsafe.
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There is no evidence that US intervention in Venezuela will lead to a meaningful reduction in drugs flowing into the United States.
A criminologist whose nephew died in prison awaiting trial explains why the federal government’s proposed bail reforms will reduce, not enhance, safety without big investments in correctional systems.
President Trump OK’d a naval buildup in the Caribbean, strikes on boats in international waters and covert operations in Venezuela. A military analyst can’t see a coherent strategy or objective.
A direct confrontation between the US military and Latin America’s drug cartels is edging closer.
President Claudia Sheinbaum walks a fine line between appeasing Washington and not alienating voters at home.
The Health To Go machines in Pennsylvania are in a YMCA in Reading and outside an emergency department in Harrisburg.
Fentanyl dealers expanding into new markets across Canada are devastating smaller cities like Thunder Bay, fuelling violence and worsening the homelessness crisis.
In recent years, the majority of stimulant-related overdose deaths have also involved fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.
Incarcerating people who use drugs is associated with increased overdose deaths after release and high rate of recidivism.
A yearlong investigation shows the depth of the gun trafficking problem and how ATF oversight of gun dealers can reduce trafficking to Mexico – when the agency has resources.
Doctors had believed that going over the maximum dose of one lifesaving drug could lead to more abuse. But after patients improved with one more pill, they convinced the FDA to change its guidelines.
Some of the same people caught illegally trafficking firearms across the border to Mexico are also selling illicit drugs, including fentanyl, meth and heroin.
Opioid overdoses are now complicated by a powerful animal tranquilliser.
Increasingly, these types of tranquilizers are turning up in fentanyl, oxycodone and other illegal opioids.
An emergency physician and nurse scientist explain what medetomidine is and how to respond if someone is overdosing on it.
Philly’s opioid addiction crisis is constantly evolving. Local health care workers and researchers explain some of the latest substances, side effects and treatments.
More than half of the street fentanyl samples collected in November 2024 contained BTMPS, and many contained more BTMPS than fentanyl.
Most liars care enough about the truth to try to conceal it. But simply not caring either way is a different vice — it’s called bullshitting, and Donald Trump weaponizes it.
After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something may finally be working − but what?
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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