Rescue Biomedical has received a grant to develop its technology that detects when a person is overdosing on an opioid and delivers naloxone to reverse the action.
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Across the U.S., people in recovery and families of those who died from overdoses fear they won’t be heard on the state-level panels recommending or deciding on the use of big pieces of proposed and finalized settlements, which are worth more than $40 billion.
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These programs may help to address the devastating drug poisoning overdose crisis in Canada.
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While ethanol is often a hidden ingredient in e-liquids, a new study finds vaping won’t trigger a false positive sobriety test– but only if police employ a proper waiting period.
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Califf promised to conduct a full review of FDA’s approach to opioids, including their prescribing instructions, to clinch Senate confirmation early this year.
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Alabama corrections officials apparently botched an inmate’s execution last month, an anti-death penalty group alleges, citing the length of time that passed before the prisoner received the lethal injection and a private autopsy.
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The Michigan State Police crime lab has stopped screening blood samples for THC, the compound that gives marijuana users a high, after problems with testing, a spokeswoman said.
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Methamphetamine remains a stubbornly prevalent illicit substance in large swaths of rural America, according to a new study.
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The researchers sought to develop a suite of tools to analyze complex DART-MS spectra rapidly and reliably, easily create or amend spectral databases, identify unknown substances, and generate reports using their Data Interpretation Tool software.
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The coming wave will not discriminate between rural and urban areas, the study findings suggest.
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