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And homelessness makes reoffending more likely.
Does it matter if you take your medicine morning, noon or night? That depends on a number of factors.
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For most medicines, it doesn’t matter when you take them. But others work best at particular times.
Safe injection facilities offer clean syringes, bandages and antiseptics to people who use drugs.
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How much more suffering and death will people who use drugs have to endure?
No drug is 100% safe.
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A person’s drug experience can be influenced by many different things, such as heat, access to water and dosage.
Syringe and cooked heroin.
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Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
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The idea that we can sit down calmly and rationally and explain to our children how they can take drugs safely overlooks a bundle of emotional issues.
When people went to their GP asking for painkillers, they weren’t prescribed higher doses of codeine or stronger opioids, as some feared.
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When codeine became a prescription only drug in 2018, the number of overdoses dropped, our new research shows. But restricting sales of codeine is only one way to reduce harm from opioids.
Alvin Roth exposes his work on “disgusting markets” at the European Meeting of the ESA (Economic Science Association) on 7 September in Dijon, France.
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Stanford professor’s research has led to an increase in the number of kidney transplants in the United States.
The effectiveness of a drug may be evaluated based on its potential to shrink tumours – but this doesn’t necessarily equate to improved survival rates.
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National drug regulators use evidence from clinical trials to decide whether new cancer drugs will be approved for use. But these studies are often flawed.
The first of its kind in Australia, the offence of ‘drug supply causing death’ carries a maximum 20 year sentence.
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Similar laws in the US have actually led to increasing the risk of fatal drug overdoses.
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Parents’ substance use affects children’s physical, psychological, cognitive, social and economic well-being, a new review of the research has found.
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Police crackdown operations are likely to exacerbate the structural inequalities that can influence criminality in the first place.
Not worth locking people up for.
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There are better ways to deal with drug possession (for personal use) than putting the person behind bars.
There’s money to be made from legalising cannabis.
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To fight the black market, the price of legal cannabis has to be relatively low. But if nothing else is done, the black market will persist.
Kingpin no longer.
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The conviction of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who evaded justice in Mexico, is a win for US officials. But it’s a pyrrhic victory in the war on drugs.
The tortilla business can become an unexpected way out for former gang members.
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Being part of a gang may increase the chance of dying young, but when gang members leave their old lives behind, they can find that their street smarts come in handy.
Less than one percent of state and local drug arrests involve amounts over a kilogram.
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A study of over 700,000 state and local drug arrests shows that two out of three cases involve a small amount of illegal drugs.
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The fungus birch polypore has a remarkable list of medicinal uses.
Building muscle mass and strength is only one of a number of reasons people might use steroids.
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When you think of steroid users, it’s likely you picture a male in the gym with huge muscles. But all sorts of people use steroids for all sorts of reasons.
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Almost 20% of people in the 2019 Global Drug Survey had been taken advantage of while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.