May 24, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Information, Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The province of British Columbia has taken action to prohibit illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces, including inside hospitals, on public transit, and in parks. After its submission of an amendment request to the federal government on April 26, which became...
May 21, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
According to the results of a new study published in the journal Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research, adult brains are more sensitive to the reinforcing ‘reward’ effects of alcohol compared to adolescent brains. The study, carried out by a team of...
May 14, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Three virtual healthcare clinics based in London, Hamilton, and Toronto now prescribe safer-supply opioid medication to patients with opioid use disorder. The medication, hydromorphone, available under the brand name Dilaudid, is used as a safer alternative to opioids...
Apr 29, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News, Opioid crisis
Earlier in April, Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, declared a national emergency over the rampant use of the deadly synthetic drug kush. The drug is comprised of an addictive mix of cannabis, fentanyl and tramadol. So far, kush is linked to hundreds of...
Apr 17, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Information, Drug & Alcohol Testing News
A recent analysis article published by CBC News and authored by Victoria Walton has revealed that more than half of all impaired charges in Prince Edward Island for 2024 have been related to cannabis use. Specifically, according to the province’s RCMP, 19 of the 36...
Mar 28, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
According to a new U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report, arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration for fentanyl offenses exceeded those for heroin offenses for the first time in fiscal year 2021. The data for the report were collected from the U.S....
