Colombia: Potential cocaine production increased by 53 per cent in 2023, according to new UNODC survey

Bogotá, 18 October 2024 Cultivation of coca bush in Colombia increased by 10 per cent in 2023 to 253,000 hectares, while potential cocaine production reached 2,664 metric tons, according to a new survey released ...

Oregon announces first three ‘recovery’ high schools to help students facing problems with substance abuse

By Natalie Pate (https://www.opb.org/author/natalie-pate/) (OPB) Oct. 23, 2024 House Bill 2767 laid the groundwork for Oregon to establish and support recovery schools across the state. Now, they’re serving students. Oregon ...

What Is ‘Pink Cocaine’?

Oct. 21, 2024 By Emily Schmall (https://www.nytimes.com/by/emily-schmall) The drug cocktail can contain ketamine, Ecstasy and meth — but rarely cocaine itself. An epidemiologist now considers pink cocaine among the most ...

Dealer who bought Banksy with cannabis cash jailed

2024/10/13 / Jordan Davies / BBC News The Banksy sculpture Grappling Hook was bought by the group using "ill-gotten gains", the court was told A drug dealer who bought a work by the artist Banksy with "ill-gotten ...

Drug dealing in multiple hospitals, policing board told

3 October 2024 Claire Graham BBC News NI Last week, the BBC revealed reports of drug dealing at the Royal Victoria Hospital site in Belfast Reports of drug dealing in a Belfast hospital emergency department seems to be ...

BRAIN at 10: A View from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

October 1, 2024,By Nora Volkow, MD, Director, and Rita Valentino, Ph.D., Director, Division of Neuroscience and Behavior, NIDA This blog was originally posted on the Data Science and Informatics ...

Pacific swamped by global drugs trade

Oct 10, 2024 ｜ AFP, NUKU’ALOFA STOPOVERS: As organized crime groups in Asia and the Americas move drugs via places such as Tonga, methamphetamine use has reached levels called ‘epidemic’ A surge of drugs is ...

Drug overdose deaths may be decreasing — but not for everyone

By Elizabeth Hlavinka (https://www.salon.com/writer/elizabeth-hlavinka) Published October 5, 2024 5:30AM The country is still losing more than 100,000 people to drug overdoses every year, with stark racial disparities A staff ...

NCORD Implements Robust Strategy To Combat Drug Abuse Among Students

by Observer News Service October 3, 2024 Srinagar- The District Level Committee for NCORD has devised a comprehensive strategy to address the rising complaints and evidence of drug and substance abuse, particularly among students residing in ...

NCORD Implements Robust Strategy To Combat Drug Abuse Among Students

by Observer News Service October 3, 2024 Srinagar- The District Level Committee for NCORD has devised a comprehensive strategy to address the rising complaints and evidence of drug and substance abuse, particularly among students residing in ...

Commercial interests contribute to drug use and addiction

September 26, 2024 By Dr. Nora Volkow Biomedical sciences are bringing increased focus to social determinants of health, which the World Health Organization (WHO) defines as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, ...

U.S. drug industry shares responsibility in fentanyl crisis, head of DEA says

By Bill Whitaker (https://www.cbsnews.com/team/bill-whitaker/), Aliza Chasan (https://www.cbsnews.com/team/aliza-chasan/), Graham Messick, Scott Higham, Jack Weingart September 22, 2024 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News The U.S. drug industry ...