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Trying to clean up street drugs used to mean interdiction, where authorities would search and seize imported cocaine or heroin, for example. Johns Hopkins substance use disorder expert Eric Strain says things are different now, and even trying to slow …
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Heroin from opium poppies, cocaine from the coca plant. Not anymore, says substance use disorder expert Eric Stain at Johns Hopkins. Strain: We’re shifting in our drug use from plant-based drugs of abuse to manufacture-based drugs of abuse. Rather than …
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100,000. That’s the official word on how many deaths due to drug overdoses have taken place in the US in the last year, with a new analysis in the Lancet projecting over a million overdose deaths in North America if …
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Opioid overdose deaths reached their highest rate ever in the US in the last 12 months, with a new study showing that expanding prescribing medications like naloxone, doesn’t help. What can stem this tide? Eric Strain, a substance use disorders …
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Deaths from drug overdoses topped 92,000 over the previous twelve months, the CDC has reported. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, says the vast majority of those deaths were due to opioids. Strain: That’s a dramatic …
