“A complementary and necessary approach is to target the “demand” side of opioid use, namely, implementation of preventive measures, educating physicians, requiring physician continuing education for opioid prescribing licensure, and addressing why patients use opioids in the first place. Indeed, prevention of initiation of use… Read More »Beyond Supply: How We Must Tackle the Opioid Epidemic
By Lynn Allison – 16 Mar 2018 A major new study claims that smoking marijuana dramatically increases a person’s risk of suffering a heart attack and other cardiovascular events. The study authors, along with top cardiologists across the country, are calling for more research into the use… Read More »Pot Smoking Linked to Higher Stroke, Heart Risks: Study
March 19, 2018 The inspiration arrived in a haze at a Paul McCartney concert a few years ago in San Francisco. “People in front of me started lighting up and then other people started lighting up,” says Matthew Springer, a biologist and professor in the division… Read More »Are There Risks From Second-hand Marijuana Smoke? Early Science Says Yes
March 6, 2018 – Abstract Naloxone access may unintentionally increase opioid abuse through two channels: (1) saving the lives of active drug users, who survive to continue abusing opioids, and (2) reducing the risk of death per use, thereby making riskier opioid use more appealing.… Read More »The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS: Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana in 2012, followed by Alaska and Oregon in 2014. The District of Columbia legalized cultivation and possession in 2014. Today’s highly potent marijuana represents a growing and significant threat to public health and safety, a threat that is… Read More »Lessons Learned from Marijuana Legalization in Four U.S. States and D.C.
By Robbie Meredith BBC News NI Education Correspondent – 16 March 2018 A new pilot project to introduce American-style ‘drug courts’ to Northern Ireland is being developed. They are courts aimed at keeping drug users out of prison and getting them into treatment. A senior… Read More »Drugs courts: Justice system that aims to rehabilitate
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this study, our findings indicate that while individuals who use cannabis or cigarettes during adolescence have an increased risk of subsequent psychotic experiences, epidemiological evidence is substantively more robust for cannabis use than it is for tobacco use. For complete study see… Read More »Association of Combined Patterns of Tobacco & Cannabis Use in Adolescence With Psychotic Experiences
SARA BRITTANY SOMERSET March 12, 2018 The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) recently issued its 2017 annual report, and the takeaway with regard to cannabis is clear: The INCB is deeply concerned with the spread of adult-use legalization. Countries pursuing legalization are acting in… Read More »United Nations Report Scolds Countries for Cannabis Legalization
Researchers highlighted the dangers of a super-strength strain of cannabis A study found ‘skunk’ was responsible for a quarter of psychosis cases But weaker forms such as hash don’t carry the same risk of mental illness By Stephen Adams for The Mail on Sunday PUBLISHED: 15 February 2015… Read More »Scientists show cannabis TRIPLES psychosis risk: Ground-breaking research blames ‘skunk’ for 1 in 4 of all new serious mental disorders
Abstract INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Data are lacking on drug use among gay and bisexual men (GBM) in New Zealand. We establish a baseline estimate of drug use and investigate associations with sexual health and HIV risk. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Drug use was common in this… Read More »Chem-sex Issues: Illicit drug use among New Zealand gay and bisexual men: Prevalence and association with sexual health behaviours
