Drug overdose deaths drop sharply in the U.S. even as new street drugs emerge

Drug overdose deaths continue to drop in the U.S., but experts say new street drugs made from synthetic chemicals are emerging rapidly.

Historic decline in U.S. overdose deaths threatened by changing street drug supply

Drug overdose deaths are plummeting in the U.S. in ways never seen before. Experts worry new, toxic "synthetic" street drugs ...
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Young Cubans turn to church and state as cheap, synthetic drugs flood the streets

HAVANA (AP) — Several dozen people stood in circle in a room at a Havana psychiatric hospital, their hands held together as they chanted in unison, vowing to rid their bodies from “the toxins that ...
Ghana News Agency on MSN

FDA cautions public to desist from buying drugs on streets, in commercial vehicles

By Christopher Tetteh, GNA Sunyani, (Bono) April 15, GNA – Mr Charles Opoku Gyamfi, a Regulatory Officer at the Bono Regional Office of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned the public ...
Capital Gazette

Street drugs kill — even if you’re an oyster living in the Chesapeake Bay

Oysters on common street drugs move strangely, eat less and die younger, researchers found. Scientists administered drugs to oyster larvae in dishes to better understand how drugs found in surface ...