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Mental health hospital admissions linked to cocaine use treble in 10 years
The number of hospital admissions for mental health disorders linked to cocaine use has almost trebled in England in the past decade, official figures...
FDA warns company for selling e-liquids that resemble kid-friendly foods
On 29 November the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to Electric Lotus LLC for selling nicotine-containing e-liquids used in e-cigarettes with labelling...
Marijuana legalisation threatens dogs’ collars
Drug-sniffing dogs that are trained to detect marijuana are complicating searches where pot has been legalised. That’s forcing some into early retirement, writes Stacy...
University hires professor to study cannabis as treatment for opioid addiction
More than 1,100 people have died from opioid overdoses in Canada this year. To help combat the crisis, the University of British Columbia wants to take a...
Smoke-free policies associated with lower blood pressure
Non-smokers who had access to smoke-free restaurants, bars and workplaces had lower systolic blood pressure readings than those who lived in areas without smoke-free...
Switzerland’s prescribed heroin treatment experiment cuts crime, saves lives
Medical prescription of heroin – now available in almost all cantons of Switzerland and tested timidly in Canada, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands...
Chemical Slavery: Understanding addiction and stopping the drug epidemic
As the United States continues to wrestle with the heroin and opioid epidemic, no one in the country is probably more qualified to write about...
It's time for Canada's government to stop withholding the truth from smokers
Good public health policy empowers people to make better, informed personal health decisions – rather than punishing them – write David T Sweanor, chair...
West Africa's first state-run rehab clinic lets addicts shoot up
Inside the grounds of Fann hospital in Senegal, men and women form a substantial queue. They are here for the Center for the Integrated Management...
Vapourised pot means a higher high
A smokeless method of vapourising and then inhaling pot packs a much more powerful punch than simply smoking weed, according to research published in...