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National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, September 26th, 2015
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been hosting the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day each year since 2010. Nearly 44 people die every day in the U.S. due to prescription opioid...
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Medicare Refuses to Share Substance Abuse Data With Researchers
Scientific research into addiction has come a long way since locking alcoholics and drug addicts in sanitariums for the insane. We now know that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that...
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Substance Abuse Hits The Campaign Trail
With just under a year left before the 2016 Presidential Election, both democratic and republican candidates are crisscrossing the nation, campaigning in as many states as possible. Their speeches...
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LSD and Psychedelic Microdosing: Is it Really Worth the Risk?
A new trend with old drugs has emerged and like most illicit drug use, there are few facts and a myriad of unknown effects. The buzz around microdosing LSD and psychedelics is emanating from the tech...
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Overdose Reversal Drug Naloxone (Narcan) Surges in Price
The epidemic of overdose deaths related to prescription painkillers and heroin in the United States is now routinely in the news. Public awareness of the issue has reached an all time high. While the...
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Non-Violent Drug Offenders Might See Early Prison Release
Almost four decades ago, the then governor of California signed into law a bill requiring prisons to make punishment and incapacitation, rather than rehabilitation, the primary goals of state penal...
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California’s Adult Use of Marijuana Act – Will it Pass This Time Around?
This November, registered California voters will decide whether or not to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), aka Prop 64, received official clearance in...
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Historic Commutations For Nonviolent Drug Offenders
Amid the chaos of ongoing presidential campaigns and their nonstop contribution to the 24-hour news cycle, President Obama quietly made history. With nearly eight years in office, Obama has done more...
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Marijuana Remains Schedule I, For Now Anyway
In a move that mystified many researchers, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) refused yet again, to loosen marijuana restrictions by reclassifying the plant as Schedule II or lower....
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National Teen Driver Safety Week – October 16 to 22, 2016
Nearly 10 years ago, Congress established the third week in October as National Teen Driver Safety Week. The initiative began after a series of tragic car accidents that claimed the lives of several...
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Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is Breaking New Ground
A landmark study began recruitment in September 2016 of 10,000 healthy children between the ages of nine and 10-years-old. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, aptly abbreviated the ABCD...
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Legalized Marijuana Passed in More States
Along with a new president, Americans in eight states voted for the passage of recreational or medicinal marijuana. Before the election, recreational pot was legal for 5 percent of the population, but...
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Department of Transportation to Update Drug Testing Requirements
The crisis of prescription painkiller and heroin addiction has not let up. While other news dominates the headlines, whole communities continue to suffer devastating losses due to fatal opioid...
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Legalized Marijuana Might Go Up in Smoke From Pesticides and Politics
Before the ink on new marijuana laws has even dried, there are looming signs of trouble. To coin a phrase, where there’s smoke, there might be a federal raid underway. In 2016, California, Nevada,...
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Smoke Less: Teenage Tobacco and E-Cigarette Use Drops
It’s more been more than a half-century since nonprofit organizations, such as the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association launched their first anti-smoking campaigns. While it’s...
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FDA Warning – Dangerous Opioid Treatment Medication Interactions
Late last month the Food and Drug Administration, the government agency that oversees the efficacy and safety of medications prescribed to Americans, issued a new warning, which might complicate...
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Declaring the Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency Falls Short of What’s...
In late October, President Trump spoke about how his brother, Fred Trump Jr., battled alcoholism and died an early death, at 43 years old. In the same speech, the president declared the crisis of...
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FDA Approves Sublocade as a Monthly Injection for Opioid Addiction
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new weapon in the fight against opioid use disorder (OUD) at the end of November. Sublocade is a once-a-month injectable form of buprenorphine, a medication...
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Monitoring the Future Survey, 2017: The Annual Report on Teen Drug Use
Data for the 2017 Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF), which polls eighth, 10th and 12th graders about illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco use annually, came out last month. The big picture is positive...
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Marijuana Legalization in Canada: Oh Cannabis, Glorious and Free
The United States’ friendly neighbor to the north is set to make continental history by legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana. Canada will be the first country in North America to enact these...
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Hemp Might be Removed from Controlled Substance List: Federal Lawmaker...
There’s a fine line or, if you prefer, rope between hemp and marijuana, though the two plants, have long been lumped together. Ever since the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, it’s been illegal for U.S. farmers...
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Gaming Addiction: World Health Organization Recognizes “Gaming Disorder” as a...
A certain segment of the American population, though fewer as the years go by, will remember the Atari 2600, the first home videogame console on the market, released around 1980. Obviously, this was...
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Marijuana Legalization Continues to Grow: Three States Approve New Pot Laws
As the dust from the November 2018 election settles, voters in three states voted to approve new marijuana laws. Michiganders will soon have access to recreational marijuana, bringing the number of...
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Hemp is the CBD Rich Strain of Cannabis That Congress Made Legal in 2018
Hemp and marijuana are two different varieties of the same plant family, cannabis sativa. Both hemp and marijuana have cannabidiols (CBD), non-psychoactive chemicals that, according to advocates, can...
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Are E-Cigarettes a Gateway Drug?
E-cigarettes may increase the risk of addiction to cocaine and other drugs, nicotine researchers suggest. While e-cigarettes eliminate some of the health risks associated with regular cigarettes, they...
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