Drug News

The opioid crisis was raging even back in 2018. There were 46,802 reported deaths related to opioid overdose that year. The statistic had more than doubled since 2010. Even though the medical community was locking down on the number of opioid prescriptions written, the damage was already done. So many lives were already in ruins Read more »

You might think that Narcan vending machines would sell out faster than $5.00 Super Bowl tickets! They’re not though—but that’s only because they’re free. A recent report put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that the total number of overdose deaths in the United States during 2021 was over 100,000. Read more »

Enter the words “fentanyl, deaths, and border crisis” into your search engine and thousands of results pop up. We specified July 2022 in the search and the number of local headlines on page one alone is enough to make you realize—if there’s any way that you hadn’t already—that our country is in serious trouble. In Read more »

In 2019, we were heralding the fact that death due to opioid overdose was down for the first time in twenty years. Three short years later, statistics show that positive drug test results among the American workforce reached their highest peak since 2001. That’s an increase of 30% from the all-time low in drug test Read more »

News broke recently that a sailor in the Navy was convicted of drug use after reaching out for mental health assistance. The story has some people questioning if this branch of the military is deputizing doctors now. In actuality, though, the psychologist who was assigned to treat the sailor was following regulations. Moreover, they have Read more »

If Mayor Muriel Bowser signs a recently passed bill into law, employers of the D.C. workforce will be changing their drug-free protocols and procedures. It’s been nearly a year and a half since Councilmember Trayon White (D-Ward 8) introduced a bill that would benefit the District of Columbia’s (D.C.) pot-smoking employees. The bill originally titled Read more »

Incarcerated drug addicts who receive buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder (OUD), are less likely to face rearrest and reconviction after release. After adjusting the data, the final results, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, showed a reduction in rates of probation violations, reincarcerations, and court charges of 32% compared to incarcerated addicts who didn’t Read more »

Shortly after the border opened, reports started coming in that drug trafficking was on the rise. The problem has steadily grown worse. If you enter the words “illicit drugs” and “border” into your search engine, page after page of results pop up with stories of illicit drug busts. The border patrol is overwhelmed, many police Read more »