Wastewater Analyzed to Map International Drug Use – Here Are the Shocking Results
A seven-year project monitoring illicit drug use in 37 countries via wastewater samples shows that cocaine use was skyrocketing in Europe in 2017 and Australia…
A seven-year project monitoring illicit drug use in 37 countries via wastewater samples shows that cocaine use was skyrocketing in Europe in 2017 and Australia…
General practitioners stopped giving alcohol advice to patients when they stopped being paid to do so. When the Department of Health (England) introduced financial incentives…
Washington State University researchers have developed a novel way to identify previously unrecognized antibiotic-resistance genes in bacteria. By employing machine learning and game theory, the…
Synthetic opioid overdose deaths in the United States soared from less than 3,000 in 2013 to almost 20,000 in 2016, accounting for half of all…
The healthcare market is failing to support new antibiotics used to treat some of the world’s most dangerous, drug-resistant “superbugs,” according to a new analysis…
Concerns over the opioid epidemic have sparked a strong scientific interest in why some people become addicted while others don’t. Now, researchers are proposing novel…
The highly anticipated Breaking Bad movie El Camino storyline focusing on drug production is more relevant than ever — with contamination of houses from methamphetamine…
Engineered viruses could fight drug resistance: By tweaking bacteriophage genomes, MIT team creates a new weapon to combat infection. In the battle against antibiotic resistance,…
Hygienists of the University of Bonn prove a transmission to newborns. Consequences for the domestic environment? Antibiotic-resistant pathogens can be spread via washing machines. This…
Lower temperatures used in ‘energy saver’ washing machines may not be killing all pathogens. Washington, DC — For the first time ever, investigators have identified…
New strategy developed to kill pathogens resistant to antibiotics. A potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium present in hospitals, can be killed by hijacking its haem-acquisition system…
Study of people who use drugs in three cities will be used to target harm-reduction measures. A minority of people who use illicit opioids indicated…
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges in the world today since many common bacterial infections are developing resistance to the drugs…
Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same drugs as its more evolved…
How relapse happens: Opiates reduce the brain’s ability to form, maintain synapses. Preclinical research was focused on revealing the molecular mechanisms behind addiction and relapse….
Teens who misuse prescription or illicit opioids might benefit from opioid treatment medications, according to a new study led by a Yale researcher. An estimated…
Although the effectiveness of medications to treat adults with opioid use disorder has been well established, there has been little research about how — or…
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) and other psychedelic drugs have a profound impact on human consciousness, particularly perception. Researchers at Yale and the University of Zurich…