Detection is not prevention: Will drug testing drivers really make NZ roads safer?
The government's new mandate to carry out random oral-fluid roadside drug testing marks a milestone in New Zealand's road safety policy.
Nov 16, 2025
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Heterocyclic Compounds: News and Research on Tropanes
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From potion to prescription: How witches' herbs became medical marvels
As Halloween approaches, stories of witches and their potions resurface, often featuring eerie plants like belladonna, mandrake and mugwort. These botanicals, steeped in myth and folklore, have long been linked to spells ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Overdose prediction tool for cocaine developed
If there are prediction models for who might be at risk of cancer or diabetes so that they can get attention before it's too late, why can't there be a predictor for overdoses? A new tool designed to help people who use stimulants ...
Oct 1, 2025
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Seventy-year-old Parkinson's drug shows promise against tuberculosis
A medication developed in the 1950s to treat Parkinson's disease may offer a powerful new tool in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), according to new research from the University of British Columbia.
Aug 12, 2025
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Motion sickness drug linked to cases of robbery and assault. Here's what you need to know about 'devil's breath'
Scopolamine, more chillingly known as "devil's breath," is a drug with a dual identity. In medicine, it's used to prevent motion sickness and nausea. But in the criminal underworld, particularly in parts of South America, ...
Jul 2, 2025
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Massachusetts' Nantucket is testing wastewater for cocaine, fentanyl, meth
The illicit secrets are in the sewage.
Jul 1, 2025
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Robotic system developed to treat life-threatening tension pneumothorax remotely
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a medical robotic system to relieve a life-threatening tension pneumothorax in the chest cavity. The researchers are presenting the robotic solution at ...
Jun 24, 2025
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August 2023 marked the turning point in US drug overdose crisis, study finds
While the U.S. has recently seen a welcome downturn in drug overdose deaths, a new study from Northwestern Medicine is the first to pinpoint when the tide began to turn—identifying August 2023 as the national inflection point ...
Jun 12, 2025
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A glycoprotein marks cocaine-activated brain neurons and regulates cocaine reward
Cocaine, a drug of abuse, activates just a portion—10% to 20%—of the neurons in the brain's nucleus accumbens, a critical region linked to motivation and addiction. Though small in numbers, this activated neuronal population ...
Jun 9, 2025
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Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked
Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards. This includes eating tasty meals, drinking something refreshing, sexual activity and nurturing children. Many of these behaviors are needed for survival. ...
Jun 4, 2025
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