April 21st, 2021New Zealand has proposed anti-smoking policies that include reducing nicotine in cigarettes and outlawing their sale to anyone born after 2004. Meanwhile in America, President Joe Biden is also considering lowering nicotine in cigarettes – down to...
April 21st, 2021A Lesotho-based cannabis cultivator has been approved as the first manufacturer in Africa to export the medicinal cannabis flower as an active pharmaceutical ingredient to the European Union, writes Luke Daniel in Business Insider.
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Doctors in Ontario in Canada are still hesitant to prescribe medical cannabis to patients suffering long-term pain – 20 years after it was first introduced and despite hundreds of thousands of Canadians using medical cannabis – says a study...
April 14th, 2021Yale University research published in the journal Addiction indicates that both cigarette and e-cigarette use decline under smoke-free workplace laws – but, interestingly, smoke-free laws’ effects were cut when vaping restrictions were...
April 14th, 2021Laboratory research from Imperial Brands, published in the journal Mutagenesis, shows that “undiluted vape e-liquids and their aerosol extracts exhibited entirely absent or vastly reduced indications of DNA damaging potential in cells” compared...
With a cannabis bill before the National Assembly and a master plan being developed by the government, the medical and recreational cannabis sector in South Africa is set to emerge from the shadows and rapidly expand, as it has elsewhere in the...Harm Reduction
Using cannabis when young may increase the risk of developing heart disease later, according to a study from the University of Guelph in Canada, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
In the first study to look at specific risk...
April 7th, 2021Adolescents and teenagers who experiment with marijuana and prescription drugs are more likely to get hooked on them than young people who try these drugs for the first time when they are college-aged or older, according to a new analysis of United...
Research published in JAMA Network Open indicates that most adults in the United States who use e-cigarettes would like to stop, and that former smokers – who most likely took up vaping to help quit smoking – have the strongest motivation to...Harm Reduction
United States researchers investigated how marijuana affects safe driving skills and found that biofluid levels of THC did not correlate with field sobriety test performance or intoxication, regardless of how the marijuana was ingested. The National...
March 31st, 2021A medically reviewed Insider article that draws on three addiction experts describes six of the best apps dedicated to helping people who are recovering from alcohol addiction to stay sober. Also, BMJ Open published research across 83 countries that...
A year after COVID-19 upended life for millions of Americans, there are troubling signs that the coronavirus may have also slowed progress against another deadly health threat – smoking, writes Matthew Perrone for AP. A Harvard survey of smokers...Harm Reduction
More stringent tobacco control policies in Europe could result in 1.65 million fewer lung cancer cases over 20 years, according to an international population-based modelling study reported in an upcoming edition of The Lancet Regional Health –...
March 24th, 2021Introducing regulation to reduce alcohol-related harm in South Africa is fully consistent with human rights protection, particularly for children, write Adam Bertscher of the University of Bath and Leslie London of the University of Cape Town, in...
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) will soon implement the Global Adult Tobacco Survey – a first for South Africa.
The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is a global standard household survey that aims to enhance countries’...Harm Reduction
In nations where vaping is endorsed by health authorities, such as the United Kingdom, there have been real reductions in smoking. Elsewhere, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s well-intentioned charitable giving has made the mistake of equating...
