When hearing the term “designer drugs” in the early 2000s, your mind may have gone straight to bath salts. They were all the rage within the United States’ drug culture at the time. Young people sought them out for recreational use. There’s nothing like being the life of the party after all! Bath salts were Read more »
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Fentanyl Island is Destroying the Economy
The city of Oakland, California is seeing an increase in tourists that aren’t welcome there. Despite that fact, city officials have given over an area of the city to them. It’s known as Fentanyl Island and is being overrun by homeless drug addicts. According to reports, the population has more than doubled in less than Read more »
Pedestrian Deaths Rise in Wake of Marijuana Legalization
The number of pedestrian traffic-related deaths is dropping in countries around the world. In the United States, however, that’s not the case. As a matter of fact, since 2010, the number of pedestrians killed in traffic-related deaths has jumped by 77%. We should mention that is in comparison to 25% for all other traffic-related deaths. Read more »
Bringing the Cocaine Sharks Theory to Light
Did the Jaws theme pop into your head when Discovery started advertising Cocaine Sharks as part of its “Shark Week” line-up? Images of crazed sharks amped up on coke undoubtedly sprang to mind for some. For others, the title may have brought the movie, Cocaine Bear, to mind. Released in early 2023, it depicts the loosely Read more »
More Employees Testing Positive for Pot after Accidents
The latest Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (DTI) Analysis shows the connection between marijuana legalization and a rise in marijuana positivity in employee drug tests. The data analyzed were taken from more than 10.6 million urine, hair, and oral fluid employee drug test results recorded between January and December 2022. Pot-smoking employees in both the Read more »
Cannabis Use Sending Young People to ER
In the latest edition of the “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR),” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its study on cannabis use among young people. The news wasn’t good. According to the report, between 2019 and 2022, there were 540,000 cannabis-related visits to the emergency room nationwide that involved people Read more »
Drug Destinations: Not the Average Vacation
There’s a dark side to tourism that is rarely talked about but is thriving nonetheless. Drug destinations are actual trips. No pun intended. People really plan vacations around drug use—especially since pot is legal for recreational use in many states now. Those who enjoy smoking the drug may plan vacations in states where they can Read more »
Zombie Apocalypse—Not So Farfetched
We’ve been hearing about it for decades, nonetheless, the phrase, “zombie apocalypse,” may soon be taking on a new connotation entirely. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is being brought back into the light as the hub of a crisis making international headlines. But, the epidemic is spreading across the country devastating communities from Massachusetts to the state of Read more »