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By Lucía Tedesco via El Planteo Spain appears to be spared from the fentanyl crisis due to the availability of heroin in the country. This is indicated by a study led by David Pere Martínez-Oró, director of the Episteme Social research center. "Fentanyl in Spain: Evidence...

Australia's Capital Decriminalizes Possession Of Small Amounts Of Heroin, Cocaine The city of Canberra in Australia has approved the decriminaliztion of low-level possession of illicit drugs, including psilocybin, heroin and cocaine, to name a few, reported ABC. On Thursday...

Amin Karim and Babur Kabiri are two hemp growers in Afghanistan trying to convince the Taliban that the plant could contribute to tackling the opium industry—which supplies most of the world’s heroin. They are working in the organization Hemp Aid, on an alternative certification in...

Voters in Oregon have approved two measures that mark an unprecedented change in the history of U.S. drug policy. Measure 110, which passed with 58.8% positive votes, decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of all illegal drugs. It also creates a support program for drug abuse...

Sometimes, efforts that begin with the best intentions can just end up making things worse. The Centers for Disease Control and state and local regulators have been fighting the national epidemic of prescription opioid painkiller abuse by increasing regulation of prescription opioid drugs and...

Ontario palliative care doctors are warning about a move that the Ministry of Health quietly made last month. As of next January, the provincial government will no longer cover the cost of powerful narcotics (morphine 200 mg tablets; hydromorphone 24 mg and 30 mg capsules; fentanyl 75 mcg/hr and...

In the wake of a recent White House announcement that the Obama administration would be bolstering efforts to combat prescription opioid and heroin addiction in the U.S., one organization is using social media to help gay men combat HIV. But can it be used to combat the opioid epidemic? The...

Opioid addiction — ranging from AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV)’s Vicodin and Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin to strait-out heroin — has become a very widespread and grave problem in the United States, and people still don’t know how to cope with it. To make things worse, treatment...