Opioid overdoses killed 47,000 Americans in 2017 — more than gun violence. Many fewer would have died if they’d been treated with the life-saving drug naloxone, also called Narcan.
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Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
A study of over 700,000 state and local drug arrests shows that two out of three cases involve a small amount of illegal drugs.
With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
A safety committee convened by the FDA has declared esketamine safe for severe depression. But isn’t this drug the same as ketamine, an illegal street drug? A medical anthropologist explains.
Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
Many people aren’t just taking one drug but a combination of drugs.
Ginsberg was one of the most high-profile representatives of the American counterculture and anti-war movement.
Opioids kill 100 people each day in the US, more than vehicular accidents. Those addicted are often left without treatment. An addiction researcher offers six steps to address the epidemic.
The U.S. has had multiple drug epidemics, and, until recently, has not had evidence-tested ways to help people. That has changed. New medicines can help. But other medical issues should also be addressed.
Why bother chasing big drugs operations when it makes no difference? Here are three reasons.
Scientists are beginning to understand why certain drugs and musical genres are natural partners.
Catastrophic increases in opioid overdose deaths across Canada require a broad response – tackling housing, food and income insecurity as well as the contaminated drug supply.
Maybe it’s time the government listened to the advice offered by its Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Your guide to a public health crisis that’s likely to get worse.
The parliamentary inquiry into establishing an injecting room in Victoria has failed to make any recommendations. This is despite finding drug use is at crisis levels in the area.
President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
South Africa is only one piece in a larger puzzle of the heroin trade along the continents east coast.
Synthetic opiates are a growing problem.
Drug deaths are rising faster than ever. How did we get here and what to do about it?
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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