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An unconventional local businessman is breaking taboos in Cyprus and Europe, making organic soaps with cannabis oil which are becoming more of a no-brainer household item. Writer and handmade soap maker Andreas Ioannou spoke to Offsite.com.cy news about his business in making and selling organic health products, using only natural ingredients including cannabis oil and doing away with all the chemicals.

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An unconventional local businessman is breaking taboos in Cyprus and Europe, making organic soaps with cannabis oil which are becoming more of a no-brainer household item. Writer and handmade soap maker Andreas Ioannou spoke to Offsite.com.cy news about his business in making and selling organic health products, using only natural ingredients including cannabis oil and doing away with all the chemicals.

South Country eyeing modern addictions facility

… South Country, along with its counterparts across the province, receives most of its financial support from Alberta Health Services. Client fees cover about 25 per cent, but they’re covered by Alberta Works if they have insufficient income. While …

Intec Pharma Announces $10 Million Private Placement

Intec Pharma Ltd. , a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing drugs based on its proprietary Accordion Pill platform technology, today announced that it has entered into agreements with several investors for the private placement of 2,289,638 ordinary shares of the Company, at a price of The ordinary shares to be issued by Intec in the private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in , absent registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an applicable exemption from those registration requirements.

GOP health plan would cut mandated drug treatment, mental health coverage

The Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act would strip away what advocates say is essential coverage for drug addiction treatment as the number of people dying from opiate overdoses is skyrocketing nationwide . Beginning in 2020, the plan would eliminate an Affordable Care Act requirement that Medicaid cover basic mental-health and addiction services in states that expanded it, allowing them to decide whether to include those benefits in Medicaid plans.

Overhaul of US drug policy is long overdue, expert says

A new report from the Office of the Surgeon General, “Facing Addiction in America,” suggests that an overhaul of U.S. drug policy is long overdue, according to a new issue brief from a drug policy expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The surgeon general ‘s report is meant to be a call to action against the public health crisis of addiction , according to the brief’s author, Katharine Neill, the Baker Institute’s Alfred C. Glassell III Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Policy.

Teen theater group to dramatize youth prescription drug abuse

To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Norwich – The growing trend of youths using and abusing prescription drugs will be played out on the Slater Auditorium stage Wednesday as “The Looking In Theater Group” presents skits depicting dramatic scenes showcasing the issue, followed by a discussion with the audience.

Call to keep students in schools

DISMISSING students who are involved in drug and substance abuse cases from schools will not solve the issue, but rather contribute to social problems. Opposition spokesperson for Education Mikaele Leawere and Fiji Teachers Union general secretary Agni Deo Singh made these comments in response to a statement by Education Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy this week.

Why US cocaine use is up

… cocaine in 2015 was the highest since 2006 and the second-highest since 1999, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported. And the number of young Americans who admitted to trying cocaine for the first time …

Addictsa loved ones need help, too

… in secret. Signs of addiction eventually became too difficult to ignore, including Mark’s visibly deteriorating health. About four and a half years ago, Vivian Lefebvre pushed him to get help, and he went to a treatment center for six weeks in Palm …

Steps to sobriety

… licensed by the state to operate for the next year as the facility seeks national accreditation – boasts a variety of health and wellness benefits for clients, including meditation space, an indoor yoga studio and a full outdoor basketball court. …

Pain pill alternative is being abused

Pain pill alternative is being abused A non-narcotic pain pill that led the state in prescriptions in December is becoming more widely abused. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://ohne.ws/2lmsV55 This week, the Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring Network issued an alert that abuse of gabapentin, more commonly known by the brand name Neurontin, has been on the rise over the past six months, especially by those with a history of abuse to heroin and prescription pain pills.

Feeling Queasy? Help is Easy

… gastrointestinal symptoms for several days to a week,” Dion Richetti, medical director of Chicago’s AIDS Alternative Health Project, says. And then there’s the “evil weed.” Dr. Donald Abrams, assistant director of the AIDS Clinic at San Francisco …

Drug addiction affecting foster care system

Although the drug crisis is not just limited to Indiana or Allen County, its affect is being felt heavily across the State, especially when it comes to the foster care system. Unfortunately as the number of drug abusers has increased, so has the number of children who are placed into foster care.

Addiction recovery advocates propose tax on prescription

Advocates for addiction recovery released a wish list Tuesday they intended to present to state lawmakers, along with a way to pay for some of the remedies: by imposing a sales tax on prescription opioids. Modeled after a federal bill, the proposal by Friends of Recovery-New York would place a one-cent fee per milligram of every legal opioid sold in the state.

Doctors tweak aid-in-dying drugs to prevent prolonged deaths

Two years after an abrupt price hike for a lethal drug used by terminally ill patients to end their lives, doctors are once again rethinking aid-in-dying medications – this time because they’re taking too long to work. The concerned physicians say they’ve come up with yet another alternative to Seconal, the powerful sedative that was the drug of choice under Death with Dignity laws until prices charged by a Canadian company doubled to more than $3,000 per dose.

Mental health treatment makes strides

… time,” said Urrea, medical director and CEO of Psychiatric Care Systems and medical director of Behavioral Health Services at Monongahela Valley and Washington hospitals. “I was referring to the poor treatments we had years ago as …

Cheaper, Deadly Heroin Behind Spike in Overdoses in Last 5 Years

The number of deadly heroin overdoses in the United States more than quadrupled from 2010 to 2015, a federal agency said on Friday, as the price of the drug dropped and its potency increased. There were 12,989 overdose deaths involving heroin in 2015, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, compared with 3,036 such fatalities five years earlier.

Heroin overdoses more than quadrupled between 2010 and 2015

The number of deadly heroin overdoses in the United States more than quadrupled from 2010 to 2015, a federal agency said on Friday, as the price of the drug dropped and its potency increased. There were 12,989 overdose deaths involving heroin in 2015, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, compared with 3,036 such fatalities five years earlier.

25 Most Commonly Used Recreational Drugs in America

Other drugs like cocaine and LSD, are used sporadically among adults in the U.S.Using data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive, the experts at HealthGrove, a health data site by Graphiq, ranked the 25 most commonly used recreational drugs. The substances are ordered by the increasing percentage of people age 12 and over who used the drug recreationally in 2015.

Options and Expectations for Cannabis-based products

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne has written to medical and pharmaceutical organisations clarifying the range of appropriately manufactured cannabis-based products that could be prescribed in New Zealand. Following on from the decision to delegate decision-making responsibility to the Ministry of Health on medical decisions to prescribe cannabis-based products, MrDunne last week wrote to New Zealand’s Medical Association, Medical Council and Pharmaceutical Society outlining the list of internationally available products and his “ongoing expectation is that medical professionals consider the prescribing of cannabis-based products with an open mind.”

Could mandatory database curb opioid abuse?

… in 2017 support requiring doctors to use the databases. Researchers with the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration analyzed survey data and reported last month that drug abusers took fewer opioids per year in states with …