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Source : What It Feels Like To Have An Opioid Addiction | Huffington Post I’m a behavioral pharmacologist who has lived the experience. We are in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction and death. Almost everyone knows someone living an opioid addiction or who has died from one. And they ...

Source : More support needed to help patients reduce opioid use, doctors say | CTV News An addictions doctor in Saskatchewan says physicians need more help to treat people with chronic pain without prescribing them opioids. Dr. Peter Butt, addictions consultant for the Saskatoon Health Region, says new national guidelines released ...

Source : World’s first trials of MDMA to treat alcohol addiction set to begin | Science | The Guardian Imperial College London scientists expect to give first dose in the next two months alongside psychotherapy Doctors in Bristol are set to begin the world’s first clinical study into the use of ...

Source : https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/1/16073124/cory-booker-marijuana-legalization One advocate described it as “the single most far-reaching marijuana bill that’s ever been filed in either chamber of Congress.” A new bill in the Senate would not just end the federal prohibition of marijuana, but encourage states to legalize pot as well. The bill, proposed by ...

Source : http://www.torontosun.com/2017/07/26/wayhome-fest-flip-flops-on-naloxone-policy An Ontario music festival has reversed a policy that would have banned attendees from bringing their own injectable naloxone kits, saying patrons will be able to trade syringes of the opioid overdose antidote for a nasal spray that has the same effect. The WayHome Music and Arts ...

Source : 2 new strains of fentanyl are resistant to Narcan|WDRB.com LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirms two new strains of fentanyl that are so potent they are resistant to the lifesaving antidote for overdoses Narcan. GBI said the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office submitted forensic drug evidence containing the ...