Oil and Drugs: A Toxic Mix
This article covers drug use and the oil industry in Texas. Thousands of oil field workers are using drugs because of the mix of money and boredom due to the energy boom. Read more...
This article covers drug use and the oil industry in Texas. Thousands of oil field workers are using drugs because of the mix of money and boredom due to the energy boom. Read more...
Thirteen years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last approved a new medication to help the nation’s millions of people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) stop or moderate their drinking.
Only 3 such formulations...
Opioid addiction is a major problem in the US.
In this way, Harvard Medical School (HMS) has introduced a new online course entitled OpioidX: The Opioid Crisis in America.
OpioidX is the first free, comprehensive educational programme...
Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their...
Heroin and synthetic opioids are propelling an upsurge of late in cocaine-related overdose deaths. This is according to a national survey carried out by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) amongst other drug...
Are you a teacher? Are you looking for materials or lesson plans on the effects of drugs and drug abuse? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a great database of more than 70 teacher materials on the effects of drugs and...
The AAP urges pediatricians screen adolescents and preteens...
Vacancy: Project Support Specialist, Tobacco Control (Grade: P2)
The Unit of Risk Factors and Nutrition at the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health has opened a vacancy for a Project Support Specialist, Tobacco...
A ‘therapeutic alliance’, or in other words, a positive and trusting relationship between counsellor and patient, could be the key to successful treatment of alcohol addiction, according to a new study. Patients who reported a more positive...
The New York Times article traces the impact of America's opioid epidemic on Americans of all backgrounds throughout the country. Photos depict the human face of a tragedy that is taking too many lives.
تحقیقات جدید ارتباط قابل توجهی بین خطر خودکشی و مصرف همزمان کوکائین و الکل پیدا کرده است.
این مطالعه عادات مصرف مواد مخدر از 874 شرکت کننده در بیمارستان برای نمایش تمایل به خودکشی، از افکار خودکشی گرفته تا تلاش برای گرفتن جان خود را مورد...
لس آنجلس تایمز به بررسی گسترش شرکت های دارویی در سطح بین المللی که در تلاش برای فروش اکسی کونتین بسیار اعتیاد آور، داروهای مخدر، و با استفاده از سرگرم کننده و چهره های ورزشی برای ورود به بازارهای سراسر جهان است.
This article describes the easy access to carfentanil, a powerful synthetic opioid where a dose smaller than the size of a poppy seed can result in death. Chinese vendors are selling this drug online, making it easily accessible around the...
سوء مصرف داروهای تجویزی تبدیل شده است یک نگرانی عمده بهداشت عمومی و ایمنی. تحقیقات نشان داده است که مواد مخدر قانونی مانند اکسی کونتین اکنون افراد بیشتری را نسبت به مواد مخدر غیرقانونی مانند هروئین و کوکائین می کشند. امروزه، مردم به طور...
Una audiencia histórica. Por primera vez, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), en el marco del 157 Periodo de Sesiones, concedió una audiencia temática sobre tabaquismo ante...
Some forms of substance use, such as adolescent (aged 12 to 17) underage drinking and alcohol use among young adults (aged 18 to 25), continued to drop according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA)...
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