Taliban Maintain Poppy Crackdown, US Fears Farmers’ Return to Cultivation

January 03, 2024 3:12 PM Akmal Dawi (https://www.voanews.com/author/akmal-dawi/yugmo) FILE - Taliban acting Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, center, speaks at a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 31, ...

Overdoses spike again in Portland, highlighting need for detox beds

7:33 PM EST January 4, 2024 ｜ Jack Molmud - Portland police and Preble Street both said there are not enough beds for people who are suffering from drug addiction as the number of overdoses rises. PORTLAND, ...

Families' lawsuit against Snapchat alleging the platform enables drug dealers allowed to move forward

ByKatie Kindelan (https://abcnews.go.com/author/katie_kindelan) suing Snap Inc. (https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/parents-kids-died-after-drugs-snapchat-speak-ahead-104040833), the parent company of Snapchat, won a legal victory ...

Hall-Long and Gibney: Holidays remind of link between drug abuse, mental illness

Posted Tuesday, January 2By Lt. Gov. BethanyHall-Long and Dr. Sandra Gibney Dr. Bethany Hall-Long is Delaware’s 26th Lieutenant Governor and Chair of Delaware’s Behavioral Health Consortium. Dr. Sandy Gibney is founder and ...

Inside the ‘zombie’ drug epidemic sweeping West Africa

2 January 2024News Source (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/kush-synthetic-drug-addiction-epidemic-west-africa/)

Potental increase in demand for drug recognition experts with marijuana legalization

BY STEVE MAUGERI CLEVELAND PUBLISHED 5:41 PM ET JAN. 01, 2024 CLEVELAND — Deputy Cody Karena is a drug recognition expert, or DRE, at the Monroe County Sheriff’s office in ...

‘Widespread cocaine usage’ found after testing wastewater in NM schools

DEC 20 By Lauren Taylor (Reporter), Alex Peebles (Producer), Ian Kennedy (Editor) New Mexico health officials said they found widespread cocaine usage when testing wastewater for opioids and stimulants ...

Ukraine is legalizing medicinal marijuana to treat stress and cancer among war survivors

Dec 22, 2023 Matthew Loh (https://www.businessinsider.com/author/matthew-loh) The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday voted in a bill that legalizes medicinal cannabis.JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images and Ruslan Stefanchuk/Verkhovna Rada ...

Mass drug courts: Treating the disorders that lead to persistent crime

Published 2023/12/27By Mimi Wishner Segel and Shira Stoll (https://www.nbcboston.com/author/shira-stoll/) Massachusetts is home to 31 drug courts where teams help treat mental health and substance abuse disorders that often lead to persistent ...

Strongsville family’s purple Christmas tree remembers people lost to drug overdoses

By Caitlin McCarthy (https://www.cleveland19.com/authors/caitlin-mccarthy/) Published: Dec. 26, 2023 at 11:45 AM GMT+8| STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (WOIO) - The holidays can be a difficult reminder of loved ones who are no longer with ...

Sri Lanka: Thousands arrested in week-long anti-drug operation

IMAGE SOURCE,ISHARA S. KODIKARA/GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Drug raids are not uncommon in Sri Lanka By Nadia Ragozhina BBC News Police in Sri Lanka say they have arrested almost 15,000 people during a ...

Sri Lanka: Thousands arrested in week-long anti-drug operation

IMAGE SOURCE,ISHARA S. KODIKARA/GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Drug raids are not uncommon in Sri Lanka By Nadia Ragozhina BBC News Police in Sri Lanka say they have arrested almost 15,000 people during a ...