Tuesday, January 31, 2012
ABSTRACT Aims The rapid emergence of myriad substances openly marketed as legal highs’ is straining traditional drug control systems which require time and basic scientific data on harms to react, presenting governments with the dilemma of no response or a disproportionate response. Some countries have side-stepped this using novel policy and legislative approaches. Should other countries consider them
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Also tagged consumer-safety, countries, data-on-harms, european, european-union, open, other-countries, rapid-emergence, results-suggest, scientific-data, seems-the-key, stop-the-open
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in collaboration with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (State/INL), has awarded the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) a $770,000 grant to support efforts to develop substance abuse services in Iraq…
Abstract: Background: In many countries, including New Zealand, alcohol availability and promotion have increased markedly in the last three decades as a result of liberalised central and/or state government alcohol policies. Accordingly, communities are increasingly relying on local government to manage alcohol-related problems. New Zealand’s states the purpose of local government as facilitating public decision-making and promoting community well-being.
In an announcement last week, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) placed some of the chemicals present in synthetic marijuana in the same category as heroin and LSD
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Adolescents and young adults are most likely to abuse prescription medications. Yet prescription rates for controlled medications, or drugs the Drug Enforcement Administration deems as having the potential for abuse, have nearly doubled for those age groups in the past 14 years, according to a recent study published in Pediatrics…
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Possession of five chemicals used to make synthetic marijuana, also known as fake pot have been made illegal by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The chemicals are JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497, and cannabicyclohexanol. The DEA has used its scheduling authority to control the chemicals for at least one year while authorities decide whether the ban should be permanent…
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The North Shore-LIJ Health System is partnering with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other government, community, public health and law enforcement organizations in a nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative that seeks to prevent increased pill abuse and theft…
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Also tagged dea, federal, government, health, health-system, lij, north, pill-abuse, prevent-increased, public-health, the-federal
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A spokesperson for BMA (British Medical Association) Scotland said: “The BMA welcomes the political parties support tougher enforcement of existing licensing laws and we would support the introduction of a mandatory Challenge 25 scheme…
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Also tagged british-medical, challenge, existing-licensing, introduction, medical, political, political-parties, support-the-introduction, support-tougher, the-introduction, welcomes-the-political
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Toxicologists across the country are sounding the alarm about a contaminant increasingly found in cocaine that is impairing cocaine users’ immune systems, subjecting them to various infections and, in some cases, causing death. The U.S.
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Also tagged across-the-country, alarm, cocaine, country, drug-used, estimates-some, immune-systems, some-cases, sounding-the-alarm, the-country
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Authors: Graham NA, Merlo LJ, Goldberger BA, Gold MS Methadone is a potent synthetic opioid used for treatment of opioid dependence and chronic pain.