The Senate has approved a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that—if signed into law—will have an effect on transportation for decades to come. And thanks to section 24220 on page 1066 of the proposed bill, that transportation includes drunk driving.
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A $26 billion settlement between the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and drug maker Johnson & Johnson and thousands of states and municipalities that sued over the toll of the opioid crisis is significant—but it is far from tying a neat bow.
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Technologies that are currently in use do not perform fast enough for a subway environment, and false alarms may cause unnecessarily disruptive and expensive closures.
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Researchers are using computational chemistry to investigate how opioids, like morphine, can be redesigned to target specific pain regions without affecting the brain.
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States that legalize recreational marijuana experience a short-term decline in opioid-related emergency department visits, particularly among 25- to 44-year-olds and men.
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Responding to advances in complementary technologies, researchers have authored a study review of current sample preparation techniques and considerations for different sample types that are typically encountered in forensic toxicology cases.
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A 15-year plan to abate the opioid crisis in a West Virginia community will cost local officials $2.5 billion, a forensic economist has testified.
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An update to the National Safety Council's Alcohol, Drugs and Impairment Division's (NSC-ADID) recommendations for toxicology testing in impaired driving and motor vehicle fatalities has just been released.
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A novel synthetic opioid that is ~20x more potent than fentanyl has been linked to 8 overdose deaths across 5 states in the last month, according to the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE).
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Legalization of recreational cannabis may be associated with an increase in fatal motor vehicle collisions based on data from the United States, and authors discuss the implications for Canada in an analysis.
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