SF mayor unveils plan to arrest, treat drug users and open up new sobering center

Thursday, November 13,By Luz Pena (https://abc7news.com/about/newsteam/luz-pena) SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a new plan to tackle the city's drug crisis: a law enforcement sobering center to get people ...

Has the opioid crisis peaked in Texas and the U.S.?

November 10, 2025 Ethan Dixon and Pia Orrenius Texas drug-related fatalities fell in 2024 from their 2023 peak. Although the rate of Texas fatalities has been relatively low, the state nonetheless has lost more than 76,000 lives to drug ...

DCHQ, UNICEF co-op to prevent addiction among children

November 4, 2025 - 16:8 source (https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/519976/DCHQ-UNICEF-co-op-to-prevent-addiction-among-children)

Three killed in latest US strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean

2025/11/02 Ben Hatton The US Defence Secretary released a video appearing to show the moment the boat was hit by a US strike Three men have been killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean, US Defence Secretary ...

Young Adults Are Using Cannabis And Alcohol To Fall Asleep

October 30, 2025 Young Adults Increasingly Using Cannabis And Alcohol As Sleep Aids A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics found that 1 in 5 young adults (https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/young-adults/) used cannabis ...

EU, SCG, Niger Delta stakeholders seek solutions to drug abuse epidemic

By : julius_osahon (https://guardian.ng/author/julius_osahon/) Date: 28 October 2025 5:51am WAT Advocate community-based approach to prevention With the alarming and increasing rate of drug and substance abuse in the South-South ...

Health-based approach on substance abuse urged

October 26, 2025 By Allen Limos video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkb0U1mRJu4 t=2s) HEALTH experts urged a health-based approach to address substance abuse in the country. During the Drug Policy Reform initiative on Saturday, health ...

Plan to test Liberian schoolchildren for drugs blocked

Oct. 17, 2025 By Moses Kollie Garzeawu The education ministry is concerned about the effects of drug-testing on students Liberia's Education Ministry has blocked controversial plans to introduce mandatory drug testing in all of the ...

Your genes might predict if you'll get hooked on weed

By Abhimanyu Ghoshal (https://newatlas.com/author/abhimanyu-ghoshal/) October 14, 2025 Two key genes associated with a number of physiological and psychiatric disorders have been linked to long-term and ...

‘Bluetoothing’: Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Alarming Global H.I.V. Surge

Oct. 8, 2025 By Pranav Baskar The practice, in which users inject the blood of already intoxicated individuals, has fueled one of the fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa. A drug addict in ...

‘More positive interventions’: Bill aims to increase youth access to addiction treatment

October 8, 2025 by Meagan Gillmore (https://www.canadianaffairs.news/author/meagan_gillmore/) A new private member’s bill aims to make it easier for youth to receive addiction treatment as part of sentencing for drug-related ...

The opioid crisis among teens: What Alameda County schools are doing to help

07 Oct, 2025 By Madison Lee Any teenager across the nation is at risk for opioid drug abuse and addiction. Unbeknownst to many, schools are huge resources for students to learn about opioids, what they do to the body, and ask for help, ...