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Authorities must act against drug addiction before it turns deadly

A Canadian biotech company has developed new test strips to detect the dangerous animal tranquillizer xylazine in the highly toxic street drug supply — but while the strips are already shipping across the U.S., Canada hasn’t yet approved the potentially lifesaving tool.

Americans may be buying like cocaine or methamphetamine or heroin. whats happening is people are dying at these catastrophic and unprecedented rates. and theyre doing it, we believe, to drive addiction. and theyre doing it because the more people who are buying the more money they make. and so, this is a threat unlike any we have seen before. and so we need to bring all -- every single tool we have in the government, public health, enforcement, or expanding the aperture to treatment, we have to ...

Weve seen before, and so we need to bring every single tool we have in the, government weathers public health or enforcement, or expanding the aperture treatment, we have to be doing everything to save lives. >> i want to introduce david frank, his medical sociologist who studies opioid use and treatment at new york university, and has been on a long term methadone maintenance treatment, you have a question for him. >> yes, thank you, drug checking programs that contest for levels of fentanyl, a...

A new San Francisco program called Scope aims to provide people with tools to know what compounds are in their drugs before they use them.

Canberra service examined 58 samples in August with nearly a third of potential users discarding drugs once made aware of what they actually contained

Researchers from The Australian National University analysed 58 samples dropped at Canberras CanTest Healt...

A new study surveyed 738 people who use drugs and found 272 people reported worsening drug quality

A new study surveyed 738 people who use drugs and found 272 people reported worsening drug quality

A new study surveyed 738 people who use drugs and found 272 people reported worsening drug quality