Items tagged with fentanyl
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| Struggling to compete with fentanyl, Mexico’s poppy farmers ask for legalization [04.02.2019] | Guerrero is Mexico’s third-poorest state and the center of its opium industry. If the state of 3.5 million were an independent country, it would be t... |
| The great fentanyl myth, and how we’re killing drug users [04.01.2019] | Our moral failure flows from the fact that we know what to do, but accept a policy that is killing our fellow citizens. The Vancouver Police Departme... |
| Safer opioids actively being reviewed for epidemic: chief public health officer [12.12.2018] | Public health officials across Canada are seriously considering increasing the supply of safer opioids to quell a crisis that newly released data sho... |
| Trump says China will curtail fentanyl. The U.S. has heard that before [03.12.2018] | China vows to stem the supply of the powerful opioid fentanyl flowing into the United States. It pledges to target exports of fentanyl-related substa... |
| Fentanyl use drove drug overdose deaths to a record high in 2017, CDC estimates [15.08.2018] | Drug overdose deaths surpassed 72,000 in 2017, according to provisional estimates recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... |
| Misuse of opioids such as tramadol and fentanyl is 'global epidemic', report finds [27.06.2018] | The misuse of pharmaceutical opioids is fast becoming a “global epidemic”, with the largest quantities being seized in African countries for the seco... |
| More drugs, more deaths, more damage... [26.06.2018] | In 2012, Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, referred to current drug control efforts as something akin to riding a stationary bicycle. " One ke... |
| China says United States domestic opioid market the crux of crisis [25.06.2018] | China’s drug control agency said the United States should do more to cut its demand for opioids to tackle the use of synthetic drug fentanyl, but it ... |
| Beijing asks Canada to help stem flow of illicit marijuana to China [30.04.2018] | Chinese officials have been quietly grilling Canada about illicit marijuana flowing to their country, prompting Ottawa to agree to work with them on ... |
| An opioid crisis foretold [21.04.2018] | Today’s opioid crisis is already the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Opioid overdoses killed more than 45,000 people in the 12 months th... |
| Vancouver mayor calls for drug decriminalization after record year for opioid overdoses [28.03.2018] | Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is calling for the decriminalization of personal drug use and possession following the release of new numbers that s... |
| Feds say 5 NYC doctors took bribes from drug maker to prescribe opioid [16.03.2018] | Five Manhattan doctors were paid more than $800,000 by a pharmaceutical company to prescribe a spray version of the highly potent and addictive opioi... |
| Skunk is causing misery – criminalisation isn’t working [01.03.2018] | C an Britain ever kill its worst taboo? This week’s news of the soaring prevalence of skunk, in place of weaker and less harmful herbal forms of cann... |
| Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime [25.02.2018] | Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic ha... |
| Opioids and methamphetamine: a tale of two crises [24.02.2018] | The unchecked acceleration of opioid-related deaths in the USA is, by many measures, the worst of times. Prescriptions peaked in 2012 at more than 25... |
| To cut drug deaths, city considers sanctioned places to shoot up [09.02.2018] | In 2016, the opioid epidemic claimed 1,374 lives in New York City. That’s roughly four drug overdose deaths each day. One death every seven hours. Ne... |
| A huge step backward on opioids [24.01.2018] | The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic o... |
| Desperate cities consider 'safe injection' sites for opioid users [10.01.2018] | Philadelphia officials are advocating to become the first in the U.S. city to open a supervised injection site, where people suffering from heroin or... |
| US turns to Trump targets – UN, China and Mexico – for help in opioid crisis [07.01.2018] | The president declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, with most recent government estimates suggesting the more than 64,000 fatal overd... |
| The opioid crisis is getting worse, particularly for black Americans [22.12.2017] | The epidemic of drug overdoses, often perceived as a largely white rural problem, made striking inroads among black Americans last year — particularl... |
| B.C. pilot project to distribute clean opioids to people at high risk of overdose [20.12.2017] | Ottawa has approved a pilot project that will allow health officials in B.C. to distribute clean opioids to drug users to use as they please, marking... |
| Supervised injection sites could stop untold opioid-related deaths [01.12.2017] | In addition to the legal issues, the heavy stigma around heroin and other opioids driving the nation's overdose crisis can push individuals into the ... |
| Ottawa approves temporary overdose-prevention sites in bid to address opioid crisis [16.11.2017] | Ottawa will let provinces and territories open temporary sites for drug-overdose prevention while their applications for permanent facilities are pro... |
| The truth about the US ‘opioid crisis’ – prescriptions aren’t the problem [07.11.2017] | T he news media is awash with hysteria about the opioid crisis (or opioid epidemic). But what exactly are we talking about? If you Google “opioid cri... |
| People are dying because of ignorance, not because of opioids [19.10.2017] | The vast majority of opioid users do not become addicts. Users’ chances of becoming addicted increase if they are white, male, young and unemployed a... |
| Recognized for controversy, Vancouver's former drug czar says the fentanyl crisis requires legalizing heroin [11.10.2017] | “Heroin at your corner store.” That was the title of a speech that Donald MacPherson delivered in acceptance of the 2017 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize ... |
| B.C.'s overdose crisis may be 'new normal,' no matter what politicians say [30.09.2017] | British Columbia has been in a public health emergency since April 14, 2016. At the time, the government said it was implemented to "help prevent fut... |
| Toronto's guerrilla war on drug overdoses [15.09.2017] | Nurses and volunteers watch over drug users at the Toronto's first pop-up supervised drug-use site. In the month since the site started operating in ... |
| The first count of fentanyl deaths in 2016: Up 540% in three years [02.09.2017] | Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to ... |
| Fatal fentanyl overdoses rise as Australians turn to more potent painkillers [31.08.2017] | Concerns are growing that more Australians addicted to pharmaceutical painkillers are turning to highly potent forms of opioids, such as fentanyl. A ... |
| How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis [29.08.2017] | A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to a recent New York Times analysis. Annual overdose deaths in the US have already... |
| Health Canada approves supervised consumption of oral and intra-nasal substances at two Surrey sites [27.06.2017] | Health Canada approved Fraser Health’s request to provide supervised consumption of oral and intra-nasal substances — the first time such an exemptio... |
| Congress is considering a bill that would expand Jeff Sessions’s power to escalate the war on drugs [16.06.2017] | Congress is considering a bill that would expand the federal government's ability to pursue the war on drugs, granting new power to the attorney gene... |
| More fentanyl being found in MDMA, crystal meth in Victoria [12.06.2017] | When Victoria pharmacist Alain Vincent began testing local street drugs for the presence of fentanyl, he knew it would be found in heroin. He was sur... |
| Drug deaths in America are rising faster than ever [05.06.2017] | Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data c... |
| The expanding universe of synthetic drugs [20.05.2017] | The 20th century saw new drugs created from scratch: amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and more. It also saw a far more spirited, if often ... |
| An experiment helps heroin users test their street drugs for fentanyl [16.05.2017] | Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is "similar to morphine but can be 50 to 100 times more potent," according to the National Institute on Drug Abus... |
| Drug controls are 'absolutely pathetic,' activist says regulation will save lives [25.04.2017] | A Vancouver based drug policy researcher has been working for decades to get the federal government to regulate illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine... |
| Legalize heroin for 'less overdose deaths,’ forensic psychologist tells Vancouver conference [25.04.2017] | A forensic psychologist working with the Canadian prison system is calling for “radically different” approaches to B.C.’s overdose crisis, including ... |
| B.C. mulls framework for expanded heroin-assisted treatment [06.04.2017] | Prescription heroin, a last-resort treatment for severe addiction currently restricted to only one clinic in all of North America, could one day be d... |
| How the opioid epidemic became America’s worst drug crisis ever [23.03.2017] | America is in the middle of its deadliest drug crisis ever. In 2015, more than 52,000 people died of drug overdoses, nearly two-thirds of which were ... |
| Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites for addicts to inject illegal drugs [27.01.2017] | Officials in Seattle approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but n... |
| Injecting drugs, under a watchful eye [18.01.2017] | It has been nearly 30 years since the first needle exchange program opened in the United States. America has another epidemic now: overdose deaths fr... |
| Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from fentanyl abuse? [10.12.2016] | Fentanyl is the latest and most disturbing twist in the epidemic of opioid addiction that has crept across the United States over the past two decade... |
| Ottawa moves to facilitate more injection sites as death toll climbs [09.12.2016] | Ottawa will introduce a bill that is expected to reduce barriers to opening and operating supervised drug-consumption sites in Canada. The move come... |
| Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough [17.11.2016] | To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly co... |
| Inside big pharma's fight to block recreational marijuana [21.10.2016] | In August, the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics cited concerns for child safety when, with a $500,000 contribution, it became the largest do... |
| Vancouver’s safer injection services stalled as overdose death toll mounts [30.09.2016] | On Sept. 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first legally authorized safer injection site. ... |
| Safe injection clinic says 90% of clients' heroin had dangerous drug additive [01.09.2016] | North America’s only supervised injection site has found that 90% of its clients’ heroin contained the powerful synthetic fentanyl. Vancouver’s Insit... |
| Could medical cannabis break the painkiller epidemic? [01.09.2016] | The U.S. “is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Prescription opioid overdos... |
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