More women, children joining drug cartels: Reports

Jorge Ventura (https://www.newsnationnow.com/author/jorge-ventura/), Rich Johnson (https://www.newsnationnow.com/author/rich-johnson/) Updated: MAY 19, 2024 / 08:13 PM CDT Number of women in cartels up sharply over five years One hit woman ...

Over 115 million pills containing illicit fentanyl seized by law enforcement in 2023

May 13, 2024 (NIDA) Law enforcement seizures of illicit fentanyl increased dramatically in number and size between 2017 to 2023 in the U.S., especially in pill form, according to a new study (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104417) ...

Michigan organization wants cities to review laws that could affect substance abuse programs

By Gino Vicci Updated on: May 13, 2024 / 7:31 PM EDT / CBS Detroit (CBS DETROIT) - A local organization is calling on cities across Michigan to take a second look at old laws on the books that could prevent some substance abuse disorder ...

More than 321,000 U.S. children lost a parent to drug overdose from 2011 to 2021

May 8, 2024 Image ©Getty Images ballyscanlon (https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=ballyscanlon) An estimated 321,566 children in the United States lost a parent to drug overdose from 2011 ...

Top Predictors of Substance Initiation in Youth Flagged

Pauline AndersonMay 07, 2024 By age 12 years, more than 14% of children have tried alcohol or tobacco, and religion, race, and income are the top predictors beginning to use these and other substances, new research suggests. Aside from ...

Sri Lanka’s anti-drug operation reveals deep cracks

Published: 01 May 2024 EASTASIAFORUM Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits (https://eastasiaforum.org/author/shyamika-jayasundara-smits/) Erasmus University Rotterdam Sri Lanka finds itself amid a multitude of challenges, from economic woes to corruption ...

Possible change to marijuana schedule status could have wide-ranging effect

By Michael Perchick (https://abc11.com/about/newsteam/michael-perchick) Thursday, May 2, 2024 6:07AM RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Drug Enforcement Administration is prepared to support changing the drug classification status ...

Addiction a ‘health-care crisis’ as B.C. eyes public drug use ban: minister

By David Baxter (https://globalnews.ca/author/david-baxter/) Global News Posted April 29, 2024 3:55 pm Federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks (https://globalnews.ca/tag/yaara-saks) says the government remains ...

Global drug kingpin’s inner circle taken down

In a large-scale raid conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, law enforcement officers swarmed homes and offices of 23 persons suspected to be part of the ‘inner circle’ of a drug kingpin apprehended in November 2022 ...

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 ...