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Community Intervention for Opioid Overdose Falls Flat, but Also Faced Challenges
MedPage Today· 3 days agoSamet, MD, MPH, of Boston Medical Center, and colleagues in the HEALing Communities Study at the ...
What is MDMA? | National Institute on Drug Abuse
Mountain View Telegraph· 6 days agoMDMA is a synthetic drug that acts as a stimulant and hallucinogen.15–17 It produces an energizing effect, distortions in time and perception, and enhanced enjoyment from ...
NIH-Funded Intervention Did Not Impact Opioid-Related Overdose Death Rates Over Evaluation Period
Sierra Sun Times· 1 day agoLaunched in 2019, the HEALing Communities...
'Super Mario' street drug bags with compound 100 times stronger than fentanyl detected in this state
Scripps News via AOL· 6 days agoIt's known to slow breathing, heart rate and blood pressure to dangerously low levels, and repeated...
NC could ban these drugs. Learn more about ‘gas station heroin,’ ‘tranq’ and kratom
Durham Herald-Sun via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhat about xylazine? Xylazine, also know as “tranq” and “tranq dope,” is a nonopioid veterinary...
Ambitious federal effort to curb overdoses shows no impact on deaths, initial study finds
WBUR Boston· 1 day agoThe ambitious program by the National Institutes of Health known as the HEALing Communities Study,...
UK’s HEAL grant didn’t meet overdose death reduction goal, but still counts successes
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNIH’s National Institute for Drug Abuse and the University of Kentucky said Sunday the four-year...
AI helping to catch drug thieves
Politico· 6 days agoA medical intelligence firm, Invistics, built the machine-learning tool with funding from the National Institute on Drug< ...
Mexico's most violent cartels are here, and worse, they've grown comfortable
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFentanyl helped them extend their reach In 2014, there were virtually zero fentanyl-related overdose...
Few Medicare patients get opioid treatment after overdose
Axios· 7 hours agoVery few Medicare enrollees who survive drug overdoses receive the gold standard for addiction treatment afterward, a new federal study shows. Why it matters: The health care ...