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Source: How France Cut Heroin Overdoses by 79 Percent in 4 Years|The Atlantic Originally published April 16th 2018 And the United States could, too Slips of suboxone, a medication that contains buprenorphine CHARLES KRUPA / AP In the 1980s, France went through a heroin epidemic in which hundreds of thousands became addicted. ...

Source: Beyond naloxone: use drugs for drug users, Edmonton city committee hears|CBC.ca Edmonton needs a safe drug supply, advocate argues Alberta Health Services says more than 100,000 take-home naloxone kits have been distributed in the province in less than a year. (CBC News) The city and province could help address the current ...

Source: Could New Drug Approved by FDA Make the Opioid Epidemic Worse?|Rolling Stone.com Dsuvia is 10 times more powerful than fentanyl, and the FDA just approved it for use. Some are worried it could fall into the wrong hands By AMELIA MCDONELL- Dsuvia single dose applicator AcelRx The Food and Drug Administration has ...

Source: It’s Too Soon to Celebrate the End of the Opioid Epidemic|the Atlantic Drug-overdose deaths have been down for six months, but it’s too early to know whether the good news will continue. The good news is that deaths from drug overdoses in America have been falling slightly for the past six months, ...

Source : Dispatches From A ‘Dopesick’ America|NPR.org Originally published on August 21st 2018 Dispatches From A ‘Dopesick’ America There’s no shortage of statistics about the depth of America’s opioid epidemic — there were 72,000 overdose deaths just last year — but numbers don’t tell the whole story. Beth Macy takes a ...

Source : The Numbers Behind America’s Opioid Epidemic|Visual Capitalist The Numbers Behind America’s Opioid Epidemic Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, who are now more likely to die from a drug overdose than from car accidents or firearms. The United States has ...