Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested that Endo Pharmaceuticals remove its opioid pain medication, reformulated Opana ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride), from the market. (...) The FDA’s decision is based on a review of all availa…

Heroin use in the United States was estimated to cost society more than $51 billion in 2015, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (University of Illinois, 08.06.2017) https://news.uic.edu/heroins-use-rising-costing-so…

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors - and their towns - from destruction. (The New Yorker, 05.06.2017) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-addicts-next-door

Geneva. Action to stamp out tobacco use can help countries prevent millions of people falling ill and dying from tobacco-related disease, combat poverty and, according to a first-ever WHO report, reduce large-scale environmental degradation. (WHO, 3…

Genf – Sieben Millionen Tote jährlich, Milliardenkosten und außerdem massive Umweltverschmutzung sind laut Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) die Auswirkungen des weltweiten Tabakkonsums. (aerzteblatt.de, 30.05.2017) https://www.aer…

The aim of this series is to share examples of innovative approaches that incorporate a gender perspective and the principles of public health and human rights into drug policy. Such innovations will have the best possible outcomes only when they ar…