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Drugged driving fatalities continue to rise in America
According to a 2011 White House study, nearly one out of every five driver fatalities in 2009 – 18 percent to be exact – involved “drugged driving,” the term that describes the growing epidemic of...
View ArticleFDA approves Purdue’s new anti-abuse hydrocodone
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new hydrocodone extended-release painkiller from Purdue Pharma called Hysingla ER (ER is for Extended Release) made with “abuse-deterrent”...
View ArticleMore heroin deaths expected as price soars for overdose antidote naloxone
Emergency responders such as police, ambulance and ER personnel, and the city, state and county administrators that pay their bills, aren’t happy with a recent price jump for nasal naloxone – the...
View ArticleExperts fear new lighter penalties for drug offenses could lead to more...
Last November, 60 percent of the citizens of California voted “Yes” on the controversial Proposition 47, also known as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which reduces non-violent drug-related...
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Rate of Ontario newborns suffering withdrawal now 15 times higher than 20...
The rate of babies being born in Canada’s province of Ontario suffering from opioid withdrawal has soared to more than 15 times what it was 20 years ago. Newborn withdrawal, called neonatal abstinence...
View ArticleFDA approves new anti-abuse Zohydro ER hydrocodone
Zohydro ER, the extended release hydrocodone prescription painkiller that caused a firestorm when the FDA approved it over a year ago, has finally been released in a new abuse-resistant formulation. An...
View ArticleCDC says opioid-addicted newborns in Florida exceed U.S. levels while only...
The number of babies born in Florida dependent on opioids like heroin and hydrocodone has increased more than 10-fold since 1995, says a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticleSenate committee rakes VA over the coals for excessive prescribing of opioid...
A troubled Marine who overdosed and died in a VA psych ward is only one of many cases of overdose in recent years. But the VA assured the committee in March that the rampant opioid prescribing has...
View ArticleOne new drug has already killed 30 people, another causes psychotic...
Florida parents are warned: Dangerous ‘designer drugs’ are on the streets Two synthetic “designer drugs” are killing people, or driving them to insane behavior, or both, according to reports in the...
View ArticleNew Gallup polls find drug use increases as people’s sense of wellbeing lessens
It’s apparently no coincidence that the states ranking lowest for a sense of wellbeing among its citizens are also the states with the highest consumption of mood-altering drugs. A nationwide Gallup...
View ArticleScientists say light may be the painkiller of the future
Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way to activate the brain’s pain-relieving mechanism using nothing but light. Although the research is in the very,...
View ArticleIndiana HIV Outbreak Tied to Injected Opioids: CDC
The small and almost unknown town of Austin, Indiana – population 4,200 – is the center of the worst surge in cases of HIV and Hepatitis C in state history. And the epidemic is stemming entirely from...
View ArticleAbandoned painkiller makes a deadly comeback
When the prescription opioid painkiller Numorphan in pill form was taken off the market 36 years ago in 1979, most people working in addiction treatment breathed a sigh of relief. Throughout the 1960s...
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27 percent of UK lawyers use recreational drugs
“It’s not just a spliff round the barbecue” A survey of a cross-section of lawyers in the UK finds that at least 27 percent of them regularly uses recreational drugs – and dangerously strong and...
View ArticleMaryland joins lineup of states asking for rebates for overpriced naloxone,...
Maryland is likely to be the next in a growing lineup of states demanding rebates and lower prices for the opioid overdose drug naloxone, from drug maker Amphastar. Naloxone is accepted everywhere as...
View ArticleHeroin overdose deaths spike in Mississippi
Heroin deaths are way up in the state of Mississippi, and public health officials are more than worried. For years there’s been one heroin-related death per year in the state. In 2012 it crept up to...
View ArticleWhat alcohol does to your body and why it’s even worse for athletes
Why swimmer Michael Phelps swore off alcohol A recent article in Swimming World describes the reasons why Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps has sworn off alcohol – to maximize his health and...
View ArticleOpioid withdrawal does not have to be a nightmare
Detoxing from heroin and prescription opioids If you’ve ever tried to detox from heroin or prescription opioids on your own “cold turkey” you know how terrible it can be. It can actually make the...
View ArticleKentucky’s Manchin and Vermont’s Shumlin Condemn FDA approval of OxyContin...
Two very concerned politicians, from two of the country’s hardest-hit opioid-addiction states, are calling the FDA’s recent approval of OxyContin for kids reckless, shameful, disgusting and outrageous....
View Article600 Churches want an end to the war on drugs, calling it “the most...
The New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, representing 600 congregations, is calling for an end to the country’s war on drugs, calling it “the single most devastating, dysfunctional...
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