China insisted it is up to the U.S. to “create necessary conditions” for anti-drugs cooperation, following complaints from Washington that Beijing has ignored its calls for a crackdown on precursor chemicals for the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl.
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Suspected drug overdose death counts are an early signal of changing trends in Delaware's opioid overdose epidemic.
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Researchers at Indiana University have identified a new method of reversing the effects of fentanyl, which is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine.
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On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved RiVive, 3 milligram naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray for over-the-counter, nonprescription use for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.
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Kentucky’s 2007 lawsuit against Purdue Pharma marked a major turn in the opioid crisis. But a new study finds that the case dissuaded only Purdue’s opioid marketing. Promotion of opioids by competing drug companies actually increased.
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Research suggests that the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drug methylphenidate (MPH; Ritalin) could serve as a cocaine-replacement therapy, but clinical results have been mixed.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has selected the LightLab 3 High Sensitivity (HS) Cannabis Analyzer to play a pivotal role in its efforts to regulate the national cannabis industry.
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Alabama State University’s world-renowned expert on forensic-death studies, Gulnaz Javan, has received a $375,000 grant from the National Institute of Health to help fight the scourge of drug-related deaths by studying microbiomes in deaths caused by cocaine overdose.
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Scientists gave an experimental insomnia treatment to rats experiencing oxycodone withdrawal. The researchers found that the animals were far less likely to seek out drugs again in the future—even after ending the treatment.
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Recently acquired in vitro pharmacological data shows this emergent novel synthetic opioid—called N-pyrrolidino protonitazene (also protonitazepyne)—is 25x more potent than fentanyl.
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