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When you think of tools for studying substance use and addiction, a social media site like Reddit, TikTok or YouTube probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the stories shared on social media platforms are ...
Jan 14, 2026
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Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who'd been battling addiction for decades. Chronic pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street.
Jan 12, 2026
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Many Canadians start the new year with attempts to abstain from alcohol and cannabis for the month of January. However, this all-or-nothing approach to a healthier lifestyle may be unsustainable for many due to complex biological ...
Jan 9, 2026
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Overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites in Toronto are not associated with long-term increases in local crime, McGill University researchers have found.
Jan 6, 2026
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In Canada, thousands of people use contaminated street opioids. To reduce overdoses, the country has been experimenting for the past 10 years with the distribution of pharmaceutical opioids as an alternative to illicit drugs. ...
Dec 10, 2025
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The Trump administration has made deep cuts to the main federal agency focused on fighting opioid addiction, potentially jeopardizing the nation's recent progress on reducing overdose deaths, some public health officials ...
Nov 20, 2025
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Imagine a world where you can buy recreational drugs online and receive them in the mail. Well, this world already exists, and not just with one or two substances, but hundreds. These drugs are known as new psychoactive substances ...
Oct 29, 2025
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People with substance dependency may face stigmatization when they attend community pharmacies and deserve to be treated with greater dignity and respect, according to new research.
Sep 25, 2025
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A new study illuminates how some areas of the country have been hit much harder than others by the fentanyl epidemic, which took more than 70,800 lives in 2022 alone.
Sep 16, 2025
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In the latest online gambling surveys conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, monthly gamblers in Massachusetts reported ongoing higher levels of sports betting, gambling intensity and gambling harms, with their ...
Jul 31, 2025
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