Are you 100% sure that your teenager is clean and sober? Do you ever suspect that a close friend or loved one is strung out on cocaine? Every year, more than 13,000 people fatally overdose on cocaine, a common street drug. If you’ve never taken the drug yourself, you could miss the telltale signs and symptoms of...
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Weekly Addiction News Roundup: September 1st 2016
Suraj Krishna, a mechanical and aerospace engineer major, has been spending his weekend nights driving his peers around to ensure they won’t drink and drive. Top 5 Addiction News Stories for the Week of September 1st, 2016 “I was the only person who kept my word when I said I drove all night, I drove...
Naloxone Highly Available and Prices Keep Growing
In the midst of the fastest growing drug epidemic that the U.S. has ever seen, Naloxone availability came at just the right moment. From pharmacies in almost every state making it available for purchase over the counter to school’s keeping it on hand just in case, the lifesaving overdose reversal drug is more available than...
Three People Overdose on “Date Rape Drug”
One woman dead and two others in critical condition in Venice, CA Emergency workers were called to a home in Venice Beach, California, early on Sunday morning, July 12, 2015, to find three people in cardiac arrest. Paramedics were able to restore the pulses of two of the people, but the third, a 44-year-old woman,...