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Byline: By, Jason Evans A mum with a £600-per-week crack cocaine habit forced her way into her elderly grandfather's house and stole his bank card, a court heard. Kelly Thomas [...]

Brisbane City: Avive Clinic Brisbane, a leading provider of mental health services, is transforming the landscape of drug rehabilitation with its cutting-edge approach to treatment. Addressing the complex challenges of [...]

Byline: Vincent Lam Dr. Vincent Lam is an addiction-medicine physician and the medical director of the Coderix Medical Clinic. He is a Giller Prize-winning novelist whose latest book, On The [...]

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico: Ibogaine By David Dardashti has issued the following news release: David Dardashti describes his discovery of ibogaine treatment for long term opiates. In recent years, David [...]

COLOMBO, March 4, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sri Lanka's police department has planned to open 250 drug rehabilitation centers in March with the goal of concurrently assisting 10,000 individuals [...]

Byline: ALANNA SMITH; Staff Alberta is expected to break another annual record for toxic drug crisis deaths, with nearly 1,700 recorded in the first 10 months of last year. The [...]

Twenty women with felony records and a history of drug use are standing on the stage in a crowded auditorium in Tulsa, and the audience is rising in a standing [...]

Byline: By, Seamus Duff Christine McGuinness has shared her pride over the fact her father overcame his addiction to heroin. The 35-year-old model took to social media on Friday to [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer Jan. 14Stephanie Taylor's path to sobriety was more well-worn than winding. She was first arrested in 2015, at age 25, after selling cocaine to a police [...]

HAIFA: Pluri Inc., a biotech company, has signed an agreement with BIRAD-Research & Development Company Ltd., the commercial arm of Bar-Ilan University, to develop Pluri's PLX cells for the treatment [...]

Byline: David Ovalle The concept has long tantalized scientists: harnessing the power of antibodies to block the dangerous effects of heroin, cocaine and nicotine, substances that have wrecked or ended [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Oct. 18Pittsburgh is looking to launch a pilot program that would help people who have overdosed. In the proposed Post Overdose Support Team or POST pilot program, [...]

Byline: ALANNA SMITH; Staff A council representing five First Nations in Alberta has declared a regional state of emergency, saying the provincial and federal governments need to provide more funding [...]

Byline: ALANNA SMITH; Staff A council representing five First Nations in Alberta has declared a regional state of emergency, saying the provincial and federal governments need to provide more funding [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS SQUAMISH, B.C. -- Dozens of community and Indigenous groups across Western Canada will share $20-million in federal funding to boost the mental health and drug awareness, [...]

The decision gives the Purdue Pharma owners long-sought protection, but it is a major step toward releasing billions of dollars from their fortune to states and communities to help cope [...]

Byline: TYSON SINGH KELSALL, ALYA GOVORCHIN, LYANA PATRICK Tyson Singh Kelsall is a PhD student in the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University. Alya Govorchin is an MSc [...]

Byline: David Ovalle Rhode Island officials recently announced the proposed location of a place where people could safely use illegal drugs under the watch of staff trained to reverse overdoses [...]

Byline: Daniel Gilbert The man bringing artificial intelligence to the masses through the viral chatbot ChatGPT wants to revolutionize mental health care and addiction treatment with psychedelic drugs. Sam Altman, [...]

Byline: ALANNA SMITH; Staff Experts in addictions, law and criminology are rebuking the Alberta government over potential legislation that would force people into drug treatment against their will, calling it [...]

Byline: MIKE HAGER, ANDREA WOO COQUITLAM, B.C. -- The patients at the Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction are here after failing all treatment options at B.C. [...]

I. 'Let's not crowd her right out the gate.' It was late summer, and the sun was high over East Harlem. Terrell Jones stepped out of a large black van [...]

Byline: BRENNA OWEN; THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA -- British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority must 'do better,' the Auditor-General said, after his office found it was not consistently providing services [...]

Just a few days ago, the United States was in a national tizzy about a balloon. Never mind that China poses a more significant security risk through TikTok, potentially spying [...]

Pregnant women are more likely to die of a drug overdose than the average woman of childbearing age, but less likely to be accepted for medication-based treatment. The Biden administration [...]

As the worst of the coronavirus pandemic receded, Canada's other epidemic - opioids overdoses - remained unrelenting. In September, the Public Health Agency of Canada detailed the grim tally of [...]

Byline: MARCUS GEE; Staff A new study of the earliest formal program to offer prescription opioids to drug users suggests their health improved under the medication, one of the study's [...]

Byline: AMY SMART; THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER -- Organizers of a Vancouver compassion club say they will continue to distribute tested cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine despite a rejection from Health [...]

FRANKLIN: Landmark Recovery has issued the following news release: Dr. Jason Kirby, chief medical officer at Landmark Recovery, a national addiction treatment provider, was recently elected president of the Tennessee [...]

Los Angeles: Rehab Near Me has issued the following news release: Rehab Near Me, an online resource for inpatient drug and alcohol rehab centers, has issued a warning to readers [...]

Byline: CAMILLE BAINS; THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's chief coroner says 9,400 people in the province have died of an overdose from toxic illicit drugs since the government [...]

Byline: CAMILLE BAINS; THE CANADIAN PRESS Families and advocates of youth addicted to illicit drugs are divided over whether minors should be forced into secure care to stabilize them before [...]

Byline: ALANNA SMITH; THE CANADIAN PRESS A father's hope turned to pain in less than 24 hours after his son entered a residential drug treatment facility and fatally overdosed. 'Our [...]

The first checks could be cut in April. The money -- from the nation's three major pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson & Johnson -- will be used for addiction treatment and [...]

Byline: By, Jane Kirby & Dave Clark The number of children able to access youth addiction services in England has fallen to its lowest level on record during the pandemic, [...]

Byline: By, Jane Kirby & Dave Clark The number of children able to access youth addiction services in England has fallen to its lowest level on record during the pandemic, [...]

Summary: DILG Secretary Eduardo Ao INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines --- A five-hectare drug rehabilitation facility in Cavite that can house up to 480 people from [...]

Byline: Ted Alcorn On a Friday afternoon in August in the northern New Mexico town of Española, Valdez Park was quiet but not deserted. Towering clouds amassed on the horizon [...]