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....
Mar 22, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Information, Drug & Alcohol Testing News
In recent months, researchers from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute have published several studies examining the association between cannabis use and mental health disorders. Led by Dr. Daniel Myran, a researcher with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and a...
Mar 5, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Earlier in February, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) marked two years of implementation of its Overdose Prevention Strategy launched by the Biden-Harris administration and announced new actions to prevent illicit drug-related overdoses. As part...
