Medications
Can a $12 test for ecstasy pills save lives? Well, it's complicated
Can a $12 pill test prevent deaths from ecstasy? Our research, published today, finds pill testing provides no magic answer.
Jun 7, 2019
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News tagged with illicit drug users
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US communities reach out to homeless as liver disease surges
This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including "the Heart of the Commonwealth" and "Wormtown." Among them was this less-known medical moniker: "Hepatitisville."
Mar 12, 2019
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Neuroscience
Team uncovers the disconnect between the brain's dopamine system and cocaine addiction
Researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio have revealed significant insight into cocaine addiction, a phenomenon which has grown significantly in the United States since 2015.
Jan 10, 2019
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Addiction
County lines: The dark realities of life for teenage drug runners
"County lines" is a term used by the police to describe a growing practice among criminal gangs: when demand for drugs fails to meet the supply in major cities, gangs travel to remote rural areas, market towns or coastal ...
Oct 23, 2018
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Medications
College education linked to opioid misuse among baby boomers
The more educated a member of the baby boomer generation, the more likely they are to misuse prescription opioids, according to new research from the University at Buffalo.
Mar 22, 2018
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Health
E-cigarettes are more likely to be used by alcohol drinkers and former cigarette smokers
Electronic cigarettes are more frequently used by people who recently quit smoking and alcohol drinkers, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2017, a premier ...
Nov 14, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hepatitis A outbreak seen in Los Angeles County
Public health authorities on Tuesday declared an outbreak of the highly contagious liver disease hepatitis A in Los Angeles County, the third California region to see significant infections this year.
Sep 19, 2017
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Addiction
Is evidence for or against drug-testing welfare recipients? It depends on the result we're after
The government's announcement in the May 2017 budget of a trial of random drug testing of 5,000 Youth Allowance and Newstart recipients has been almost universally criticised. While the prime minister claimed the program ...
Sep 13, 2017
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Medications
Safe space for illegal drug consumption in Baltimore would save $6 million a year
A new cost-benefit analysis conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and others suggests that $6 million in costs related to the opioid epidemic could be saved each year if a single "safe consumption" ...
May 25, 2017
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Medications
Lessons learned from an overdose outbreak
Last summer, within eight hours, 12 patients were brought to the emergency department at Yale New Haven Hospital with signs of drug overdose. They had been exposed to toxic doses of fentanyl, a highly potent opioid 50 times ...
Feb 3, 2017
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