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National Institute on Drug Abuse Center of Excellence
Drexel University College of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is one of four academic medical sites serving as national Centers of Excellence for ...
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New law allows drug traffickers to be charged with manslaughter if someone overdoses
according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. That’s why Alabama lawmakers enacted a new law that allows prosecutors to charge fentanyl drug traffickers with manslaughter if someone dies ...
This Popular Drug Can Be a 'Gateway' to More Serious Addictions, Experts Say
Researchers believe that alcohol can alter the brain's chemistry and allow people to more easily become addicted to harder ...
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Opioid Crisis: Grading the Progress of National Initiatives
In their 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article on opioids, Dr. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who served as ...
Fentanyl poisonings among children in the U.S. increase sharply over eight years
Incidents of children in the U.S. being poisoned by the synthetic opioid fentanyl "increased and became more severe", a new study reveals.
Who carries and uses Naloxone in the U.S.?
A new USC-led study provides the first nationwide picture of who knows about, carries, and uses naloxone to reverse deadly opioid overdoses. Mireille Jacobson, professor of gerontology at the USC ...