Few Young Adults Could Administer Naloxone to Reverse Fentanyl Overdose
April 22, 2024, By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, April 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Even though fentanyl-linked fatal overdoses are soaring among young adults, a new survey of American college students found that just 1 in 7 ...
West Africa’s Sahel becoming a drug trafficking corridor, UN warns
19 Apr 2024/Jazeera Media Network Drug seizures, mainly of cocaine and cannabis resin, have soared in the region, according to a UN report. Powdered cocaine is pictured in an undated handout photo courtesy of the US Drug Enforcement ...
Zebrafish show potential for assisting drug addiction research: NHRI
04/15/2024 09:08 PMFocus Taiwan Photo: Oregon State University / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 Taipei, April 15 (CNA) Research by a National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) team has found that zebrafish could potentially be used to ...
Drug abuse among women witnesses alarming surge
Ayesha Saghir (https://tribune.com.pk/author/12595/ayesha-saghir) April 16, 2024 LAHORE: The prevalence of drug usage, notably smoking, is on the rise among women in Pakistan, posing a significant concern for public health. While ...
Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug kush - made from human bones
By Umaru Fofana,BBC News, Freetown Share AFP Sixty-three percent of patients at Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital have been admitted for kush-related issues Sierra Leone's president has declared a national ...
Into the unknown- A clear breakthrough, but an uncertain future for drug policy at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Posted on 09 Apr 2024Authors:Ian Tennant;Ana Paula Oliveira;Jason Eligh;John Collins;Mira Sztanojev At the 67th session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), member states met to take stock of progress made in ...
A knowledge-based approach to tackling Afghanistan’s drug abuse crisis
This story has been adapted from UN News. Kabul (Afghanistan) - There are many dangers lurking in the shadows just off the bustling streets of the Afghan capital Kabul, but none is more threatening than the drug abuse crisis that is ravaging the ...
Semaglutide (Ozempic) May Help Reduce Cannabis Use
Posted March 28, 2024 | antidepressant (https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/ssris) in 1985. Within a few years, it was noted that patients taking bupropion were reporting a decrease in their tobacco use, and by 1997, Wellbutrin received FDA ...
Drug overdoses have reached record high, per latest CDC report: ‘Grim statistics'
Published March 26, 2024 4:13pm EDT By Melissa Rudy Drug overdoses reached a new high last year in the U.S., according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nearly 108,000 people died from drug overdoses ...
Germany legalises cannabis possession for personal use from April
Published On 22 Mar 202422 Mar 2024 German laws on cannabis use now among most liberal in Europe, but medical experts warn it ‘makes you stupid’. A cannabis or hemp plant in a box at the Hemp Museum in ...
Former Liverpool FC prodigy jailed for role in major drug ring
By PA Media Ewan Gawne,BBC News Share GMP Ex-Liverpool youth player Jamie Cassidy was "drawn in" to crime by his old brother, a court heard A former Liverpool football prodigy has been jailed for more ...
Progressive California and Oregon revive the war on drugs amid fentanyl crisis
March 21, 2024, 4:14 AM CST By Alicia Victoria Lozano (https://www.nbcnews.com/author/alicia-victoria-lozano-ncpn1112366) PORTLAND, Ore. — The war on drugs, once a weapon in the nation's fight against substance abuse and related ...