(AP) – A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates. Researchers repeated an analysis that sparked excitement years ago. READ STUDY HERE The previous work linked medical marijuana laws to slower...
Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the United States, but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to a report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.The report examined data in all 50 states...
Chinese-made drugs 100 times stronger than morphine flood Australia as authorities warn the country is on the cusp of a deadly new opioids crisis Authorities warned synthetic opioids are being mailed in mass...
Naloxone is an opioid-overdose antidote that if widely used could help stem the tide of the more than 130 Americans who die each day of drug overdoses. The drug has no potential for abuse and is harmless to those who are not experiencing an opioid...
While statewide data showed improvement, Washington County saw an apparent uptick in overdose...
Mike Pompeo / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehman June 11, 2019 5:00 pmSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the United States is making progress in an increasingly global drug war, although Chinese drug gangs and the "Maduro mafia" are posing major barriers to...
CLOSEA man and woman from Milwaukee have been charged with giving the controlled substance fentanyl to a Brookfield man, causing his death in 2018. Kenyon Q. Pugh, 32, and Simona L. Ramirez, 43, were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on June 10 with first-degree reckless homicide. If...
A spike in opioid overdoses and deaths in Peterborough, Ont., is prompting a call for the Ford government to do more to tackle the crisis. Over the first weekend in June, police responded to 19 drug overdoses, which resulted in two deaths over a 72-hour period. A veteran of...
The numbers are stark - year to date there have been 45 fentanyl-related drug overdose deaths in Hartford.Police say that’s almost double the number from a year ago. And now fentanyl has been found in cocaine and crack cocaine, in addition to heroin.This has local,...
The family of the Woodstock teen who’s become the local face of the deadly opioid epidemic is pushing for harsher penalties for dealers.The Mackay family launched an online petition late last week urging government leaders to pass legislation that would sharply increase prison sentences for...