Tag: Drug use
Colorado’s fentanyl criminalization bill won’t solve the opioid epidemic, say the...
Katherine LeMasters, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation...
Millions of US children have parents with substance use disorder, and...
Ty Schepis, Texas State University
About 1 in 4 U.S. children – nearly 19 million – have at least...
What is xylazine? A medical toxicologist explains how it increases overdose...
Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical School
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a warning on Mar. 21, 2023, about...
The D.A.R.E. Sessions wants is better than D.A.R.E.
Paul Boxer, Rutgers University Newark
Americans of a certain generation will remember this mantra from the 1980s: Just say no.
This simple phrase was the...
The other opioid crisis — people in poor countries can’t get...
Luke Messac, University of Pennsylvania
There are two opioid crises in the world today. One is the epidemic of abuse and misuse, present in many...