Dec 26, 2024 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News, Opioid crisis
A recent article published by CBC News examined the growing incidence of babies born with opioid addiction withdrawal symptoms in recent years. According to Dr. Laura Lyons, an addictions specialist and physician at the London Health Sciences Centre who also treats...
Aug 26, 2024 | Opioid crisis
As part of a drug bust operation carried out earlier in May, P.E.I. RCMP seized tablets identified as N-desethyl isotonitazene, a potent and dangerous synthetic opioid. “N-desethyl Isotonitazene is a synthetic opioid considered more than 20 times more toxic than...
Aug 19, 2024 | Opioid crisis
Vancouver-based safe supply advocates, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) is preparing for a second Charter challenge as part of its defence of its two co-founders, Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum. In 2021, DULF and...
Jul 12, 2024 | Opioid crisis
In a press release published, researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have announced that they will develop an AI model that will help to predict opioid addiction in high-risk patients. Specifically, the project will be funded...
May 28, 2024 | Opioid crisis
According to a new study carried out by the U.S. National Institute of Health, more than 321,000 U.S. children lost a parent to drug overdose over the period spanning from 2011 to 2021. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, also showed that the death rate due to...
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...
