DIY Opioid Antidote Gets Fast FDA Approval

Published April 7, 2014

DIY Opioid Antidote Gets Fast FDA Approval
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Dina Fine Maron is the associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American. Follow on Twitter @Dina_Maron. More ». Contact Dina Fine … Prescription opioid overdoses now claim more lives each year than heroin and cocaine combined. When an … Read more on Scientific American (blog)

'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
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Children have been forced into foster care because of addicted parents; shoplifting rings have formed to raise money to buy fixes. … The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman spotlighted the reality that heroin is no longer limited to the back alleys … Read more on Washington Post

The Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
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The result is a wide-ranging, compulsively readable account of how Thai stick, once an unremarkable staple of peasant life in rural Southeast Asia, became an international sensation; how it invaded and fundamentally altered American culture; and how … Read more on Santa Barbara Independent