Tag: Drugs
A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what...
Ted Powers, University of California, Davis
An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success...
Calling in the animal drug detectives − helping veterinarians help beluga whales,...
Sherry Cox, University of Tennessee
In my work as a veterinary pharmacologist, I never know exactly what I’m going...
New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is...
Jonathan Larsen, Temple University; Amy Yeung, Penn State; Dennis Scanlon, Penn State, and Renee Cloutier, University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania...
Balancing kratom’s potential benefits and risks − new legislation in Colorado...
David Kroll, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
David Bregger had never heard of kratom before his son, Daniel,...
Gun trafficking from the US to Mexico: The drug connection
Sean Campbell, The Conversation and Topher L. McDougal, University of San Diego
Illegal firearm trafficking is inseparable from the...
Why Trump’s tariffs can’t solve America’s fentanyl crisis
Rodney Coates, Miami University
Americans consume more illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world; about 6%...
Philly hospitals test new strategy for ‘tranq dope’ withdrawal – and...
Kory London, Thomas Jefferson University
Unimaginable pain and restlessness. Vomiting so frequent and forceful that it can perforate the...
How meth became an epidemic in America, and what’s happening now...
William Garriott, Drake University
Rural America has long suffered from an epidemic of methamphetamine use, which accounts for thousands...
EXPLORING NATURE
Why you can salvage moldy cheese but never spoiled meat −...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
When you open the refrigerator and find a wedge of cheese flecked with green...
