Top 10: If you could invent technology to help young people avoid drugs, what would it be?
From virtual reality and video games to robots and devices, readers share the creative technology they would harness to ...
The Heritage Foundation11hOpinion
The Drug Crisis Hasn’t Gone Away. The Trump Administration Should Confront It
The federal government has long sought to prevent the horrors of drug addiction by interdicting the supply of dangerous ...
The Sacramento Observer1d
As Overall Fatal Overdose Rates Fall, Black Drug Deaths Remain High
These disparate rates began in 2011 when yearly overdose rates change among Black Americans began slowly rising relative to whites. Then, in 2016, the steep inclines began popping up. That year, ...
My name is Jerry, and I'm addicted to social media | Jerry Davich
I know many social media users who check their smartphone or digital device dozens of times each day to replicate the same feel-good but fleeting chemical reaction in their brain. It’s eerily similar ...
U.S. News & World Report14d
What to Know About Journavx, the Non-Opioid Pain Medication Just Approved by the FDA
The Food and Drug Administration this week approved a new type of painkiller that doesn’t carry the risk of addiction or overdose associated with opioid medications. The drug, suzetrigine ...
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Kano NDLEA raids drug hotspots, arrests 18 suspects
The NDLEA’s commitment to dismantling drug syndicates and curbing the rise in drug abuse was reinforced by Maigatari. He also emphasized that the agency would continue to prosecute those involve ...
The Boston Globe15d
‘A forgotten generation’: Older Black men in Boston are dying of drug overdoses at alarming rates
The immediate driver is fentanyl, which is cheap to produce and is increasingly being laced into cocaine — the drug of choice for many Black men struggling with addiction. In Suffolk County ...
Daily Mail18d
Seven members of child sex abuse gang who preyed on youngsters under 13 in Glasgow 'Beastie House' drug den are handed jail terms of between eight and 20 years
Seven members of a child sex abuse ring who preyed on children as young as 13 in a Glasgow drug den nicknamed the 'Beastie House' were today handed jail terms ranging from eight to 20 years.
BBC19d
Glasgow child sex abuse gang given life sentences
Three victims under the age of 13 were subjected to horrific sexual abuse and violence in a Glasgow drug den dubbed "the beastie house" over a seven-year period. Police said the children had ...
The Daily Telegraph23d
‘Beer glasses of cocaine were going for €5 each’: The island paradise that became addicted to drugs
Lopes heaps the blame on Quinci, whose drugs, he says, set a generation on the path to addiction. When I ask the inspector what he would say to the smuggler today, given the chance, he answers wit ...
The Punch Newspapers24d
NAFDAC mobilises teachers, youths to combat drug abuse
and youths in its fight against drug abuse in Nigeria. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, made the appeal on Wednesday during the inauguration of the NAFDAC Catch Them ...
Vanguard24d
14.3m Nigerians abuse drugs – NAFDAC
has said that about 14.3 million or Nigerians are victims of drug abuse. Adeyeye stated this at the inaugural ceremony of the agency’s youth programme, tagged, ‘’Catch Them Young,’’ held ...