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A growing coalition of drug-policy experts says giving pharmaceutical heroin to addicts beats established treatment. Such programs, they argue, reduce the harms caused by illicit substance use and ...

Source: Used with permission, Mark Gold The good news about bad drugs is that overdose deaths caused by fentanyl are down in the United States, although too many people are still dying. That’s the key ...

The term “gas station heroin” encompasses the drug tianeptine and other 7-OH drugs with dangerous opioid-like effects, but which may be purchased (for now) at smoke shops, gas stations, and other ...

Authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been warning the public about worrying cases of heroin overdoses after people thought they had taken cocaine or methamphetamine. We know the issue is ...