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Building on the findings of the evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy for 2013-2020 and the Action Plan for 2013-2016, the new Action Plan on Drugs provides a strengthened response to the newly-emerging health and security challenges in the area of il…

STATE DEPARTMENT — The United States has its worst heroin and opioid crisis in more than 60 years. In 2015, mostly due to the heroin and opioid painkiller epidemic, more than 52,000 deaths in the U.S. were related to drug overdoses, the h…

Opioid addiction is ravaging America’s farmland, tearing at communities and posing a new threat to families that have worked the same soil for generations. (NYTimes, USA, 12.03.2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/us/opioid-epidemic-rural…

USA. As opioid overdoses rise, police officers become counselors, doctors and social workers The nation’s opioid epidemic is changing the way law enforcement does its job, with police officers acting as drug counselors and medical workers and…

The Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act would strip away what advocates say is essential coverage for drug addiction treatment as the number of people dying from opiate overdoses is skyrocketing nationwide. (Washington Post Blog…