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Men died of overdose at 2-3 times greater a rate than women in the U.S. in 2020-2021

National data show need for more research into the factors underlying differences in sex-based vulnerability to drug use Men were...

U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — How Harm-Reduction Programs Could Help

Drug overdose deaths in the United States have jumped 50 percent since 2019. Recently released provisional data show they likely claimed...

A deadly new street drug caught the U.S. off guard. Experts say it'll happen again

Public health and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. are scrambling to blunt the impact of xylazine, a deadly new threat to...

CSMAS signals its support for removing cannabis from banned drug list and drug-testing protocols

The NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports signaled its support for removing cannabis from the...

Opinions | 1940s Mexico has a lesson for how the U.S. can tackle drug addiction

Policies that treat drugs as an issue of public health — not just a criminal justice problem — are increasingly receiving bipartisan...

FDA Issues First Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials with Psychedelic Drugs

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a new draft guidance to highlight fundamental considerations to researchers...

Treatments Used Among Adolescent Residential Addiction Treatment Facilities in the US, 2022

An unprecedented number of adolescents were identified as having an opioid use disorder (OUD) in 2021. Residential treatment facilities...

American Society on Addictions education offerings: DEA Education Requirements

On December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (CAA 2023) established a new requirement for all DEA-registered...

We Can’t Arrest Our Way Out of Overdose: The Drug Bust Paradox

In speaking with police about preventing overdose, the officers’ common refrain is “We aren’t going to arrest our way out of this”...

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