Tag: drug addiction
Maine expands medication-assisted treatment capacity with $2.4M in funding
Earlier this week, Gov. Paul LePage of Maine announced that his administration will allocate $2.4 million in an effort to eliminate wait lists for...
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,...
Drug trade festers on the darknet
The Global Drug Survey (GDS) 2016 recently offered a glimpse at the rising number of people using ‘darknet’ drug markets around the world. More than...
Breaking the cycle of addiction
Kayla Whitehead of McMinnville, Oregon, was 13 years old when she started taking her mother’s prescription painkillers. “My mother’s an addict herself,” Whitehead said....
A mother’s love (Aimee Dunkle Interview Part 1 of 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWtK9GNOnVU Aimee Dunkle lost her son Ben to a heroin overdose in 2012 when he was 20-years-old. Several weeks ago, Addiction Now conducted an interview with...
Are drug overdose images raising awareness or stigmatizing addiction?
Overdose pics are going viral, and they’re coming from unlikely sources – police departments in small towns across the U.S. Police departments have been releasing...
How the world gets high
Countries around the world are struggling with drug abuse, whether it’s a nine-year-old in Mexico who snorts meth for the first time, or someone...
Rising fatal overdose rates in Massachusetts outpace national average
New data shows that there’s no sign of improvement in the Massachusetts opioid epidemic. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) reported earlier this month...
New report points to similarities between drug addiction and hacking
A new study by the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol suggests there is a correlation between the impulsive euphoria that is associated with...
Methadone: Are liquid handcuffs the best solution?
Due to the side effects and risks linked to methadone, many countries around the world do not allow the drug to be used for...
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