Nevada receives $333 million to fight the opioid crisis
Nevada’s Department of Justice has allocated $333 million to help fight the opioid crisis. Principal deputy assistant attorney general Sullivan believes it has already destroyed too many lives and is one of the deadliest epidemics in the nation’s history. The epidemic claims 130 lives daily (opioid-related overdoses). Based on this, the Department of Justice has
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Mandatory drug testing bill for Philippine detainees filed
If the bill passes, the country’s correctional penal institutions will enforce random drug tests aimed at detainees and custodians. According to Manuel Cabochan III, Magdalo Para sa Pilipino party-list Rep, it is to safeguard the integrity of the institutions. Since 2014, drug trafficking in New Bilibid Prison has risen. It was discovered during one of
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As it turns out, the argument claiming that alcohol tax only punishes the poor is wrong
A UNSW study came to a conclusion. The argument claiming that alcohol tax only punishes the poor is false; there is no evidence for it. Some also perpetuated the myth that people would actually drink more because of being reminded of their not-so-rosy financial situation. Again, such arguments are false, the study finds. Here’s what
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Will a combination of therapy and ketamine stop alcohol abuse?
Surgeons, together with researchers from the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians, have found a new approach to battling excess alcohol consumption. A single ketamine infusion, combined with outpatient behavioural therapy, is enough to stop a patient from drinking for weeks. The results of the study were published in
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