A new study published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found a correlation between the brain’s immune system and alcohol drinking behaviors at night. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia have successfully shut down the impulse to drink in mice by giving them a drug that stops a certain ... Read More
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New Fingerprint Test Can Detect Cocaine in Your System
At the end of last month, scientists in Surrey, England announced that they had developed a quick and highly effective method to test for cocaine usage by simply taking an individual’s fingerprints. The researchers at Surrey University, working in conjunction with the Netherlands Forensic Institute and ... Read More
Do Other Countries Have a Drug Epidemic like America?
A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported that while America has only about 4% of the world’s population, it represents 27% of drug overdose deaths worldwide. In the U.S. roughly 245.8 people, per million, die from drug-related causes every year, whereas the average across the ... Read More
Senator Expands Probe into Opioid Addiction Crisis
Beyond all of the political infighting and raucous debates over health care, one thing can be said for certain—some Senators are still committed to fighting the opioid addiction crisis that we are experiencing in this country. Senator Claire McCaskill the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security ... Read More
Researchers Conclude Heroin Addiction Costs Nation $51 Billion Each Year
It is no secret that heroin and other opioid-related substances have become a major problem in this country. Over the past few years, the issue has become so problematic that some have even deemed it an Opioid Epidemic, as year after year the number of opioid and heroin-related deaths continue to rise and ... Read More
Indiana Gets $11 Million to Fight Drug Epidemic
At a drug prevention summit in Atlanta last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price announced that the federal government would be awarding $485 million to be dispersed among all 50 states in order to help fight the opioid epidemic in this country. The money will be given in the form of grants ... Read More
Senate Committee Investigating if Big Pharma Companies Fueled Opioid Epidemic
A Senate committee has been established to investigate whether the top five makers of opioids in the United States: Purdue Pharma, Johnson and Johnson, Insys, Mylan, and Depomed engaged in practices that fueled the opioid epidemic that the country is currently facing. Since the late 90’s, opioid abuse has ... Read More
Viral Video From the Sheriff of Lake County Sparks Outrage
Sheriff Peyton Grinnell of the Lake County Florida Sheriff’s Department stood at the podium flanked on each side by men with crossed arms, wearing black balaclavas and S.W.A.T gear. Behind him on the wall are green and gold stripes. An image of a sheriff’s badge is half visible and the words Lake County ... Read More
$25 Million Donated to Boston Medical Center for Addiction Treatment
Boston Medical Center has received a $25 million donation in order to help fight drug addiction and the opioid epidemic that has ravaged the State. According to the Department of Public Health for Massachusetts, an estimated 1,979 people died from opioid related causes in 2016, a number that represents an ... Read More
Trump Appoints Chris Christie to Head Commission to Fight Opioid Epidemic
Earlier this week, President Trump appointed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head a commission on the opioid epidemic in the US. Christie will chair a special committee that will fall under the jurisdiction of the newly formed White House Office of American Innovation, which was rolled out Monday by the ... Read More