Tag: opioid addiction
Drug use in Cambodia reportedly up 30 percent this year
The number of confirmed drug addicts continues to climb in Cambodia. Reports from the area claim drug addiction has risen by nearly 30 percent,...
Tech company partners with organization to prevent drug diversion
Solo Technology Holdings, LLC, developers of iKeyp, a smartphone-enabled safe designed to prevent the theft and abuse of prescription drugs, has teamed up with the...
How Canadian pharmacists are treating opioid addiction
Provinces across Canada are struggling with opioid use.
Drug overdose deaths in British Columbia hit an all-time high last month, with 128 deaths in a...
Michigan drug court doubles down on treatment to fight addiction
Lenawee County, Michigan is doubling down on their efforts to rehabilitate felons with treatment, education, community service and employment.
“Our goal is to rid them...
Only 1 in 10 people with a substance use disorder receive...
While 66.7 million Americans admit to binge drinking in the last month and 27.1 percent say they have abused illicit or prescription drugs, only...
Opioids claimed more lives than guns did in 2015
Opioid-related fatalities outnumbered gun-related deaths by nearly a margin of 3 to 1, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and...
Canadian opioid crisis prompts calls for public health emergency
Health care experts in Canada are calling for a public health emergency, as opioid misuse continues to swell.
“The reason that the U.S. and Canada...
Study links risk of opioid painkiller misuse and unemployment
A recent study from Columbia University found that former workers who are unemployed have a high risk for misusing prescription opioids, and those that...
Spider venom shows promise as alternative to opioid painkillers, study shows
Australian researchers made a scientific breakthrough that could change opioid-based therapy -- spider venom.
Researchers from the University of Queensland tested more than 205 different...
New study mirrors national data showing sharp increase in babies born...
An increasing number of babies in the United States are starting their lives in a state of withdrawal, according to a new study published...
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