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…

Next year Canada will hit a high no other G7 country has reached: legalizing marijuana as a recreational drug. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party passed a bill easing restrictions in March—t…

Wien – Rund um den Globus greifen 250 Millionen Menschen zu illegalen Rausch­giften. Das geht aus dem Weltdrogenbericht hervor, den die Vereinten Nationen (UN) heute in Wien vorgestellt haben. 29,5 Millionen von ihnen haben den Angaben zuf…