Widespread cannabis use linked to increase in psychiatric disorders, UMSOM review finds
Dec 19 2023By University of Maryland School of Medicine (https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/news/2023/um-school-of-medicine-review-highlights-rise-in-psychiatric-disorders-linked-to-increased-cannabis-use.html) The widespread use of cannabis ...
Crisis warning over deadly drug cocktail '10 times stronger than Fentanyl'
Thursday 14 December 2023 19:59, UKBy Ashish Joshi One of the country's leading experts in drug abuse is warning of a deadly crisis fuelled by a cocktail of substances said to be more addictive than heroin and "ten times stronger than ...
The great cryptophone hack: Drug gangs on trial in ‘historic’ Belgian case
BY ELISA BRAUN (https://www.politico.eu/author/elisa-braun/) DECEMBER 18, 2023 Belgian investigators take on cartels in cases hinging on hacked criminals’ chat logs. Hundreds of court cases using data from Encrochat and Sky ECC ...
TSNAB to Tackle Drug Abuse with an Iron Hand
Deccan Chronicle.| DC Correspondent (https://www.deccanchronicle.com/byline/dc-correspondent-1) Published on: December 18, 2023 | Updated on: December 18, 2023 If parents, teachers and police cannot save kids from falling prey then who else ...
Drug lords find a hot new way to smuggle meth and cocaine across US-Mexico border
8:05am Dec 18, 2023 A 28-year-old man caught some heat with the US (https://www.9news.com.au/usa) Customs and Border Protection in Southern California after officers said they found thousands of kilograms ...
Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world’s top opium producer: UN
12 Dec 2023 —Violent political turmoil in Myanmar in years since 2021 coup has contributed to production increase, new report says. Myanmar has become the world’s top producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan in 2023, ...
Reported drug use among adolescents continued to hold below pre-pandemic levels in 2023
December 13, 2023 New data show relatively low use of illicit substances, yet overdose death rates among teens have risen in recent years The percentage of adolescents reporting they used any illicit substances in ...
Japan to legalise medical use of cannabis, revising stringent drug laws, but toughens ban on recreational marijuana use
Published: 7 Dec, 2023 Agence France-Presse (https://www.scmp.com/author/agence-france-presse-1)andKyodo (https://www.scmp.com/author/kyodo) The use of marijuana is heavily stigmatised in Japan, but the landmark bill is a win for ...
Is cannabis bad for teens? Here’s what the data say
11 December 2023By Anil Oza (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03860-3#author-0) Young people attended a pro-cannabis march in Toronto in 2018, months before the drug was legalized in Canada.Credit: Arindam Shivaani/NurPhoto via ...
To Revive Portland, Officials Seek to Ban Public Drug Use
State and local leaders are proposing to roll back part of the nation’s pioneering drug decriminalization law and step up police enforcement. Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon said officials hoped to restore a sense of safety for ...
U.S. SPONSORS CONFERENCE TO STRENGTHEN PHILIPPINE DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION EFFORTS
By U.S. EMBASSY MANILA (https://ph.usembassy.gov/author/missionph/) DECEMBER 7, 2023 Representatives from the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines’ Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and the ...
Street drugs stronger than heroin linked to 54 deaths in UK
IMAGE SOURCE,JACKIE MCANOY Image caption, Simeon McAnoy was found unresponsive after taking a synthetic opioid drug, his mother says By Alex Homer Navtej Johal BBC News Super-strength street drugs more ...