USA. “All Scientific Hands on Deck” to End the Opioid Crisis (By Nora Volkow (Director, NIDA) and Francis Collins (Director, NIH) (NIDA, 31.05.2017) https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2017/05/all-scientific-hands-deck-to-e…

China said Monday it would ban a designer drug called U-47700 and three others, following U.S. pressure to do more to control synthetic opioids blamed for fast-rising overdose deaths in the United States. (abc News, 19.06.2017) http://abcnews.go.co…

In 2015 about a quarter of a billion people used drugs. Of these, around 29.5 million people - or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population - were engaged in problematic use and suffered from drug use disorders, including dependence. Opioids were…

A rising opium and heroin epidemic in Afghanistan has begun taking a toll on the country’s women, tens of thousands of whom are believed to be suffering from addiction inside their homes and outside of the public eye. (Washington Post, 19.06.2…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will supply thousands of field deputies with the nasal anti-opioid spray naloxone to help prevent overdose-related deaths, officials announced Thursday. (LA Times, 15.06.2017) http://www.latimes.com…

President Donald Trump's administration should do all it can to support evidence-based addiction treatment and find ways to encourage more physicians to take on addiction medicine as a specialty, clinicians told members of The President's Commission…