Items tagged with fentanyl
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| 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... |
| A deadly crisis: mapping the spread of America's drug overdose epidemic [25.05.2016] | America is in the midst of an unprecedented drug overdose epidemic. Nationally, overdose deaths have more than doubled over the past decade and a hal... |
| Health Canada overturns ban on medical heroin [12.05.2016] | Health Canada has moved to allow doctors to apply for special access to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade heroin to severe addicts, which would overturn... |
| Street opioids are getting deadlier. Overseeing drug use can reduce deaths [25.04.2016] | As health officials battle increasing mortality associated with heroin and prescription opioids, an even more dangerous group of street drugs has app... |
| B.C. declares public health emergency as overdoses surge again [13.04.2016] | British Columbia has declared a public health emergency after another surge in drug-related overdoses and deaths, making it the first province in the... |
| How Canada got addicted to fentanyl [07.04.2016] | The supply chain for illicit fentanyl begins in China, but the problems Canada is experiencing start right here at home: No other country in the worl... |
| How powerful synthetic drugs will upend drug markets globally [01.12.2014] | Illicit drugs made from plants (e.g., cocaine, heroin) are being replaced in some national drug markets by those that are synthesized (e.g., methamph... |
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