In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2016 photo, interim U.S. Attorney Bruce Brandler poses for a photograph at his office in Harrisburg, Pa. The top federal prosecutor for central and northeastern Pennsylvania announced a strategy to combat the heroin and prescription painkiller epidemic.
Category: Drugs
3 Myths About Marijuana Stocks
What do Hercules, Thor, centaurs, and marijuana stocks have in common? They’re all the subjects of myths. Most myths have at least a little bit of truth interspersed with a lot that is false.
California’s Gigantic Medical-Marijuana Industry Could Be Devastated by an Unlikely Source
If you support the legalization of marijuana, 2016 didn’t give you much to complain about. Last year, residents in four states approved recreational-marijuana ballot initiatives, doubling the total from the end of 2015, while five new states put medical-cannabis laws on their books.
Rural New Mexico exports mentoring model for physicians
… opioids, while many prescription addicts have transitioned to cheaper heroin. Under the ECHO Act, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department – which oversees Medicare and Medicaid – will review the mentoring programs and look at ways they could …
County steps up heroin fight with education
… the Northern Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, Planning and Development Services and the Northern Kentucky Health Department to make sure residents know help is available for drug addiction. Volunteers are taking a break for the cold winter …
Ringing in the new year with new laws
Oftentimes, new state laws take effect with the start of the new year. But this year, some of the most high-profile new laws come with unusual effective dates.
End heroin’s devastation in 2017
I didn’t know the young man well — I’d hired him to do some handyman work around my house — but it was awfully unpleasant to learn that he died at 24 with a needle in his arm. It was a bad batch of heroin.
Government Has Share in Blame
… consumed for legitimate medical reasons, and the drug wholesalers knew it. Companies such as McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen Drug Co. understood full well they were flooding the Mountain State with poison, but they hid behind …
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As 2016 comes to a close, it can arguably be described as the best year ever for marijuana. At the beginning of the year, 23 states had legalized medical cannabis, while residents in just four states had voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana.
Legal Haze Clouds Cannabis For Pets
… client’s written consent is needed for any unorthodox treatment,” the memo stated. The Washington State Department of Health staffs the state’s Veterinary Board of Governors. The Department’s home page for veterinarians simply states, “The law …
As Drug Overdose Deaths Escalate, Opioids Continue to Be the Top Killer
… in 2010. Opioid drugs continue to be linked to the highest percentage of these deaths. The report may spur public health officials and other leaders to focus more on responding to the growing addiction and drug abuse problem, Dr. Caleb Alexander, …
A New Study Shows a Startling Rise in Deaths From Fentanyl Overdoses
… or OTC drug. Our pill identification tool will display pictures that you can compare to your pill. Talk to health experts and other people like you in WebMD’s Communities. It’s a safe forum where you can create or participate in support groups and …
More pregnant women use marijuana for morning sickness, study finds. That’s not good.
… study published Monday analyzed data from women ages 18 through 44 from the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2002 through 2014. Researchers assessed data from 200,510 women of reproductive age, including 10,587 pregnant women. …
Sleeping rough to totally buff: How drug addict turned his life around
… met his girlfriend Lisa and started his own business, Lift 4 Life, a program that helps people improve their health through group training, bootcamps and classes in nutrition. He attributes his own radical transformation to the fact he “was at a …
More and more, boomers just say yes to pot, alcohol
… ballooned by a whopping 250 percent. The study, based on over 45,000 responses to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health , isn’t the first to note that marijuana use is increasing rapidly among older adults. But it digs more deeply into the …
Moscow woman moves past abuse, addiction and self-sabotage – Sat, 17 Dec 2016 PST
At 19 years old, Paradise Creek Regional High School student Daizy Fletcher has a lot to look forward to – and more lessons to look back on than many twice her age. “I’m good at self-sabotage,” she said, reflecting on the past several years when her life was a flurry of struggles with family stresses, drug and alcohol addiction, and the basic teenage desire to at once fit in and be free.