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A man rests after injecting heroin he bought on the street at the Insite safe injection clinic in Vancouver, B.C. Photo via CP. The cheap drug test will soon be available in Canada. Health experts are turning to a cheap drug test strip kit from a Toronto suburb as a tool to curb soaring...

A pharmacy in Manitoba was ordered to stop selling a drug testing kit that could detect fentanyl. $5 Fentanyl Drug Test Blocked By Pharmacy Regulators A pharmacy in Manitoba, one of Canada’s 10 provinces, recently decided to stock drug-testing kits that could detect fentanyl, the synthetic...

you gotta help me, i'm losing my mind keep getting the feeling you wanna leave this all behind thought we were going strong i thought we were holding on aren't we? no, they don't teach you this in school now my heart's breaking and i don't know what to do thought we were going strong thought we...

It takes mere seconds. Drug overdoses are now officially the leading cause of death in Americans under 50, according to a report compiled by the New York Times last month. The data suggests that overdose deaths likely exceeded 59,000 last year, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the...

Authorities have issued an urgent warning about a drug that can kill in very small doses. At least two have died, and the drug is in N.J. A deadly drug that can kill people in doses smaller than a snowflake is in New Jersey, and it's connected to at least one overdose locally and two recent...

Drug users who test their drugs and discover fentanyl are 10 times more likely to reduce their dose, raising the possibility that making such tests widely available could reduce overdoses. That is one finding of a drug-checking pilot project at Insite, Vancouver's supervised-injection site,...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. – "I was high as hell." That's what Karisa Daniels said when she admitted to WTVR in a jailhouse interview that she shot a Virginia State Trooper Tuesday night, but the 23-year-old insisted that she was not in the right frame of mind. "Next thing I know ‘pow!’ He falls down...

We are in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction and death. Almost everyone knows someone living an opioid addiction or who has died from one. And they all have the same question: why can’t we, didn’t we, stop? Why, they wonder, do we hock, trade, sell everything we own; why do we steal...

Asheville, North Carolina, like the rest of the nation, is experiencing an opioid overdose crisis. Local statistics documenting increased emergency room visits for overdoses and drug-related illnesses look very similar to statistics from other comparably-sized cities throughout Appalachia and...

Marijuana is the most commonly abused drug in the world, and the advent of synthetic cannabinoids creates additional challenges to the society because of their higher potency and ability to escape drug detection screenings. Scientists from Japanese sleep institute have a warning for the society...