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...
Feb 20, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Earlier in January, RCMP released a new substance use policy to replace the previous 2018 rule requiring front-line officers and other employees in “safety-sensitive” positions to refrain from recreational cannabis use for four weeks before duty. According...
Feb 13, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
According to the results of a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), teenagers who drink alcohol, or smoke cigarettes or cannabis are more likely to experience psychiatric symptoms compared to their peers who do not use these...
