Tag: Opioids
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...
Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly street fentanyl − creating new...
Kory London, Thomas Jefferson University and Karen Alexander, Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia’s street opioid supply – or “dope” market...
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%...
Nearly 2 million Americans are using kratom yearly, but it is...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
The herbal substance kratom, derived from the leaves of a Southeast Asian tree,...
Dozens of US adolescents are dying from drug overdoses every month...
Ty Schepis, Texas State University
Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.
Overdoses...
What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge...
Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical School
Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax...
Philadelphia bans supervised injection sites – evidence suggests keeping drug users...
Jordan Hyatt, Drexel University; Jannet van der Veen, Drexel University; Synøve Nygaard Andersen, University of Oslo, and Tony Joakim Ananiassen Sandset, University...
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, Middlebury
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner...
EXPLORING NATURE
Israelis have a skewed view on extent of Gaza’s hunger plight...
Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University and Carlo Koos, University of Bergen
Under mounting international pressure, Israel announced on May...
