USA. Overdose Deaths Surged In Pandemic, As More Drugs Were Laced With Fentanyl Researchers gathered for a conference on addiction this week received a grim update on the growing spread of street drugs laced with deadly synthetic opioids including…

USA. San Francisco Contends With a Different Sort of Epidemic: Drug Deaths More people died from overdoses than from the coronavirus in San Francisco last year. Some think the toll, tied to homelessness, should force the city to re-examine its appr…

Co-involvement of opioids in drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants.  Hedegaard H, Miniño AM, Warner M.  NCHS Data Brief, no 406. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021. doi.org/10.15620/cdc:103…

Trends in drug-induced deaths in Australia, 1997-2019. Chrzanowska, A., Man, N., Sutherland, R., Degenhardt, L., & Peacock, A. (2021).  Drug Trends Bulletin Series. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. https://…

USA. More Than 87,000 Americans Died of Overdoses in One Year A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds more than 87,000 Americans died of overdoses in the 12-month period that ended in September — a 29% increase…

A Fatal Case of Opioid Intoxication After Raw Poppy Plant Ingestion.  Bozan G, Ulukapi HB, Oncul U, Levent S, Dinleyici EC.  Cureus. 2021 Feb 6;13(2):e13176. doi: 10.7759/cureus.13176. PMID: 33717721; PMCID: PMC7939539. https://www.ncbi…