Cannabis vapes in Australia containing opioids spark calls for better access to anti-overdose drugs
Vaping synthetic opiods can cause overdose or unconsciousness within minutes and from just six puffs, Victorian medical expert says
July 2024
Is a new opioid crisis about to devastate the UK? – video
When the Afghan Taliban ceased production of heroin, global supplies were depleted, with new, powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes flooding in to fill the vacuum.
June 2024
Britain is on the brink of an opioid crisis. Punishing addicts won’t work
Martha Gill
It’s time to abandon cruel and costly policies that merely satisfy a severe, moralistic approach to drugs and their users
May 2024
Opioids the Opera: painkiller’s ‘lurid tale of greed’ inspires new production
More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023
‘Alarming’ rise in drug overdoses in Australia as heroin-linked deaths surge 40%
‘A complete 180’: how a trial treatment in Sydney for heroin addiction is changing lives
April 2024
Synthetic opioids: warning issued in NSW after nitazenes cause cluster of overdoses
NSW Health investigating after powerful drugs detected in samples related to overdoses in Nepean Blue Mountains local health district
Synthetic opioids previously linked to UK deaths are being ‘advertised for sale on social media’
Suppliers boast to undercover reporters about promoting illegal nitazenes, on SoundCloud and X
Guns and lies
A Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence: trauma, addiction, suicide
With 377 school shootings since Columbine, Americans are still reckoning with the real toll of these attacks
March 2024
Synthetic opioids have arrived in Britain. As a former drug dealer, I know how the UK should respond
Niko Vorobyov
There are better ways of tackling addiction and overdoses than reverting to the tactics of a failed drugs war, says Dopeworld author Niko Vorobyov
‘In a way, stigma is the leading cause of death’: the radical plan to tackle British Columbia’s overdose epidemic
A ‘compassion club’ was blocked from buying pure drugs on the dark web to supply to users – now they are taking on Canada’s government in court
Oregon undoes groundbreaking drug decriminalization law
Measure 110, an experiment approved in 2020, gets overhauled as state grapples with fentanyl crisis and growing public drug use
February 2024
NSW Health warns of opioid risk after people took heroin thinking it was cocaine or methamphetamine
How Oregon turned on its own trailblazing drug law: ‘Not the utopia we were promised’
‘We hold you sacred’: how a mobile drug unit is fighting the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation
Doctors fighting US opioid epidemic say insurance barrier impedes treatment
January 2024
People buying opioids and sedatives online face deadly fakes, expert warns
Drug consumption rooms could save thousands of UK lives, study finds
December 2023
US opioid activists argue against Sackler family immunity in Purdue Pharma deal
Supreme court to review immunity of Sacklers from prosecution under a 2019 bankruptcy settlement with the OxyContin maker