Strongsville family’s purple Christmas tree remembers people lost to drug overdoses

By Caitlin McCarthy (https://www.cleveland19.com/authors/caitlin-mccarthy/) Published: Dec. 26, 2023 at 11:45 AM GMT+8| STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (WOIO) - The holidays can be a difficult reminder of loved ones who are no longer with ...

Sri Lanka: Thousands arrested in week-long anti-drug operation

IMAGE SOURCE,ISHARA S. KODIKARA/GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Drug raids are not uncommon in Sri Lanka By Nadia Ragozhina BBC News Police in Sri Lanka say they have arrested almost 15,000 people during a ...

Sri Lanka: Thousands arrested in week-long anti-drug operation

IMAGE SOURCE,ISHARA S. KODIKARA/GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Drug raids are not uncommon in Sri Lanka By Nadia Ragozhina BBC News Police in Sri Lanka say they have arrested almost 15,000 people during a ...

Ecuador's New President Strengthens Rules on Illegal Drugs

November 26, 2023 3:32 AM Associated Press (https://www.voanews.com/author/associated-press/j_-yt) National Assembly President Henry Kronfle places the presidential sash on President Daniel Noboa after he was sworn in as the ...

FDA approves first genetic test to assess opioid addiction risk using DNA sample

Published December 21, 2023 11:06am EST The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first test for assessing the risk of opioid use addiction in specific individuals. It is a prescription-use only genetic laboratory test intended ...

Doctors Warn About Dangers of Trip-Killers for Drug Users

21 DEC 2023 4:18 AM AEDT Benzodiazepines and antipsychotics most often recommended, but few safety warnings on social media The use of potentially harmful 'trip-killers' to cut short 'bad drug trips' after taking psychedelics, such as LSD or ...

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, ...