2023 EU Drug Markets Analysis from the EMCDDA and Europol
New analysis highlights greater diversity of cannabis products, rising potency and security risks posed by Europe's largest illicit drug market Cannabis products are becoming increasingly potent and diverse, while ...
Understanding substance abuse recovery: Experts shed light on challenges and solutions
Wed, November 15th 2023by Victoria Langowska According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration over 46 million people ...
Supplying a High: Nitrous oxide abuse chokes with colorful and dangerous highs
By Rob Krieger (https://www.fox8live.com/authors/rob-krieger/) Published: Nov. 15, 2023 at 12:49 AM GMT+8 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A growing wave of nitrous oxide abuse is painting cities with bright colors, bubbly logos, and a troubling ...
An unusual vending machine is designed to safeguard addicts’ health
Perspective by John Kelly (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/john-kelly/?itid=ai_top_kellyjf)/November 13, 2023 Community health nurse Savannah Wong stands near a vending machine on Seventh Street NW that dispenses such items as clean ...
£267 million to boost local drug and alcohol treatment
Every local authority across England to be allocated additional funding to help combat drug and alcohol misuse From: Department of Health and Social Care ...
New Hampshire's recovery-friendly workplace program expands to nationwide institute
Published November 9, 2023 1:45pm EST Approximately 350 businesses employing nearly 100,000 people have joined the nationwide program New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/new-hampshire) ...
Researchers identify brain network that is uniquely activated through injection vs. oral drug use
November 8, 2023 NIH study suggests the brain’s “salience network” is important for understanding substance use disorder, could be a future therapeutic target ©Getty Images/Klaus Vedfel ...
Afghanistan opium cultivation in 2023 declined 95 per cent following drug ban: new UNODC survey
Kabul / Vienna, 5 November 2023 Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan plunged by an estimated 95 per cent following a drug ban imposed by the de facto authorities in April 2022, according to a new research brief from the United Nations Office ...
When Oregon decriminalised drugs, overdoses went up. Will that happen in the ACT?
Published: November 3, 2023By new bill (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-28/canberra-drug-decriminalisation-laws-begin-today/103032128) came into effect in the ACT at the weekend decriminalising personal possession of common illegal ...
Over 220 Pounds of Suspected Controlled Substances Seized Including Pills Shaped to Resemble Heart Shaped Candy
United States Department of Justice / District of Massachusetts / PRESS RELEASE Monday, November 6, 2023 Believed to be one of the largest single-location seizures in New England BOSTON - An estimated 10 million doses of ...
Rally against drug abuse organized
By Daily Excelsior (https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/author/dailyexcelsior_wpadmin/) -November 6, 2023 news source (https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/rally-against-drug-abuse-organized/)
Alarming new trend is emerging as younger Americans eschew alcohol on dates, go more for cannabis
By Nikolas Lanum (https://www.foxnews.com/person/l/nikolas-lanum) Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/) Published November 3, 2023 3:30am EDT Gen Z Americans are drinking less than previous generations (https://www.foxnews.com/media) and ...