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Current treatment strategies struggling to cope with COVID19 outbreak
On the 31st of December 2019, just before the new year broke, a small office run by the World Health Organization received a report of “an atypical amount of viral pneumonia cases.”
ADHD Drugs Now Sending Users to the ER
Every year it seems, we hear a new story and some new information about a pharmaceutical drug or a series of drugs that we once thought were safe, now being newly exposed as being very not safe. Prescription drugs and their use is becoming more controversial, and one can see why.
What Stole Our Beloved Carrie Fisher Away?
Following the tragedy of Carrie Fisher’s death, the toxicology report shed detailed light on the way her toxic cocktail of drugs contributed to her death.
Multiple Drug Abuse - A Dangerous Way to Use Drugs
When the news media carries a story of a drug-related death, there’s very often more than one drug involved in that death. That was the case when the musician Prince died in 2016.
Three Ways to Save an Addicted Person’s Life
Three important things you can do to save a person from fatal drug overdose and get them on the path to recovery.
Maps Tell the Story of Drugs’ Disastrous Impact on the U.S.
A new mapping website provides graphic illustration of overdose statistics and a forum for families to share stories of those they lost to drug addiction.
52 Obituaries in 2016 Immortalize the Lives Stolen by Heroin
An accounting of some of the lives we lost in 2016 to drug overdoses, immortalized in loving obituaries written by their families.
