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According to research, about 25 percent of adults who are treated for alcohol and substance abuse also have ADHD. Strength and Hope.
The Zheng drug trafficking organization was hardly clandestine. The China-based network sold synthetic narcotics, including deadly fentanyl, on websites posted in 35 languages, from Arabic and English to Icelandic and Uzbek. The Chinese syndicate bragged that its laboratory could “synthesize nearly any” drug and that it churned out 16 tons of illicit chemicals a month. […]
San Diego – County law enforcement and health officials warned residents Friday of three deaths this past weekend caused by fentanyl-laced cocaine in Pacific Beach and Ocean Beach. In addition to the three deaths, two others overdosed on fentanyl– laced cocaine and survived. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be anywhere from 50 to […]
Miller, 26, whose real name was Malcolm James McCormick, was found Friday in the bedroom of his home and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Some hospital emergency departments (ER) are giving people medicine for withdrawal, plugging a hole in a system that fails to provide immediate treatment.
We’re learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits—and how new science discoveries can help us kick the habit.
The contents of the packages totaled 11,490 fentanyl pills, believed to be the largest fentanyl bust at a port across the Southwest border
In some states, many drug overdoses are so broadly classified that they are not being counted properly as opioid-related.
Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, laid off its entire sales force.
The surge in U.S. kids taking medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is having an unintended side effect, a new study suggests: more children and teens are overdosing on these drugs.
Open drug use has exploded in San Francisco in recent years, enraging residents who complain of having to step over people injecting heroin in train stations and to traverse a seemingly unending series of tent villages on sidewalks and bike paths
Walmart and Sam’s Club’s pharmacies will limit opioid dispensing to some customers to a seven-day supply, as the retail giant moves to help stem the epidemic that kills more than 100 Americans a day.
Arizona has recorded its first death involving Carfentanil overdose, a synthetic opioid that’s 5,000 times more potent than heroin, and 100 times more powerful than fentanyl.
No one will be criminally charged in the 2016 death of Prince by accidental fentanyl overdose, law enforcement authorities in Minnesota announced on Thursday, saying that they could not determine who had provided the powerful drug that killed him.
