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The CDC observes that there has been a change in the pattern of the drugs involved in these deaths, with deaths due to natural and semisynthetic opioids (morphine, codeine, hydrocodone and oxycodone) and from methadone decreasing, while deaths from heroin and synthetic opioids (fentanyl, fentanyl analogs and tramadol) other than methadone increasing. (hightimes.com)
The senator said if some states went forward, it could lead to new revenues for states that could be used to fight the effects of substance abuse from drugs like heroin that have ravaged communities. (seattletimes.com)
Just 48 hours after winning Ecuador's presidential election, Daniel Noboa has repealed years-old legislation that allowed cannabis, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine users to carry small amounts of drugs. (hightimes.com)
ISLAMABAD: Anti-Narcotics Force arrested five drug peddlers and recovered huge quantities of heroin, ice, hashish, and opium from their possession. (com.pk)
Health and Human Services is suggesting the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reclassify cannabis as a lower-risk drug by moving from it from the current Schedule I list, grouped with drugs like LSD and heroin, to a less heady Schedule III rank, on par with steroids or codeine - substances that the feds deem to have low to moderate potential for abuse. (miaminewtimes.com)
The drug use (DUQ) questions focus on lifetime and current use of marijuana or hashish, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, as well as intravenous use of drugs. (cdc.gov)

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. (wikipedia.org)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has detected an increase in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella infections (shigellosis) reported through national surveillance systems. (cdc.gov)

Ask your doctor or pharmacist for a naloxone prescription or get naloxone from local organizations if you or a loved one uses illicit drugs, has substance use disorder, takes high-dose prescription opioids, or has other risk factors for opioid overdose. (cdc.gov)
The injecting of illicit drugs is associated with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and vascular disease ( 1 - 3 ). (cdc.gov)

Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020. (wikipedia.org)
28 people out of every 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2020 in the US. (wikipedia.org)
However, the new drug is responsive to Naloxone, which is used to treat narcotic overdoses in emergency situations. (newsweek.com)
Deaths attributed to drug overdoses are constantly on the rise, but drug trends are frequently changing and often differ across geographical regions. (nist.gov)

There were around 68,700 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2018. (wikipedia.org)
Yang co-founded Seoul Drag Parade in 2018, and has been working hard to normalize the public presence of sexual minorities in Korea. (koreatimes.co.kr)
The American Diabetes Association's annual guidelines for 2018 include new recommendations for use of glucose-lowering drugs with proven cardiovascular benefit in type 2 diabetes, optimization of diabetes care in elderly patients, and glucose screening of high-risk adolescents. (medscape.com)

In 2020, 91,799 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. (cdc.gov)
Between that acquisition and 2020, the company increased the drug's price 27 times until it cost $5,554.96 per month - an increase of 457% over its initial cost. (rt.com)
Two more price hikes took place this year, despite a 2020 investigation into Amgen's pricing habits by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, in which the drug company's practices were roundly condemned. (rt.com)
Given that just 18.4% of Americans were on Medicare as of 2020, that leaves the lion's share of drug consumers without any means of decreasing their own prescription costs. (rt.com)
Drug Enforcement Administration police are seen as demonstrators march to Freedom Plaza from Capitol Hill to honor George Floyd and victims of racial injustice on June 6, 2020. (truthout.org)
Prosecutors accuse Yoo of getting injections of propofol or other medical-purpose drugs on about 200 occasions at clinics across Seoul since 2020 under the pretext of going under cosmetic procedures. (koreatimes.co.kr)

There is no scientific data available on the number of addicts in Punjab as most of the studies conducted were on drug addicts. (hindustantimes.com)
In 2001, the study conducted by Dr Neerja and Vasudha Goyal of the Institute for Development and Communication, with a sample size of 4,335 addicts, observed that 79% of the drug addicts were youths. (hindustantimes.com)
Similar studies done by PS Verma (2010) with a sample size of 1,527 addicts and RS Sandhu (2013) with a sample size of 600 addicts, mentioned that around 73% of the drug addicts were youths. (hindustantimes.com)
From these studies, it was erroneously inferred as if 70% of the youths of Punjab were drug addicts. (hindustantimes.com)
Similarly, attempts to isolate the Punjabi youth and project them as drug addicts also leads to their stigmatisation. (hindustantimes.com)
Opponents contend that the drug treatment offered in lieu of incarceration would be toothless, a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for addicts. (latimes.com)
The news did not come as a surprise for Lynne and three other former addicts The Sunday Times spoke to. (straitstimes.com)
Pushers in Malaysia tend to market drugs adulterated with glass powder, and even rat poison, to raise their profits, the four former addicts told The Sunday Times. (straitstimes.com)
The former addicts also told The Sunday Times that some organisers of drug parties hand out pills and drinks, claiming that these can flush out the drugs before the users return to Singapore. (straitstimes.com)
Helping Hands social worker Raymond Choo, who has worked with drug addicts for more than five years, said the belief that police in these other countries can be bribed also gives abusers the misconception that consuming drugs overseas is easier and safer. (straitstimes.com)
There are various other drugs such as marijuana, hashish, LSD (acid) and ecstasy that are used by a large number of addicts. (com.pk)
These drugs have not only affected individuals but have degenerative tendencies to destroy the families of addicts. (com.pk)

At that time, most strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were susceptible to first-line tuberculosis drugs, and drug resistance was not a major issue. (nih.gov)
Title : Receipt and timing of HIV drug resistance testing in six U.S. jurisdictions Personal Author(s) : Dasgupta, Sharoda;Hall, H. Irene;Hernandez, Angela L.;Ocfemia, M. Cheryl Bañez;Saduvala, Neeraja;Oster, Alexandra M. (cdc.gov)
Equal rates of drug resistance in leprosy cases with relapse and recurrent/chronic Type 2 reaction: time to revise the guidelines for drug-resistance testing in leprosy? (bvsalud.org)
recently, however, drug resistance as a cause for recurrences and chronic erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) has been speculated. (bvsalud.org)
To study drug -resistance patterns in cases of leprosy relapse and chronic/recurrent (c/r)ENL. (bvsalud.org)
Rates of drug resistance were 5.4% (2 of 37) for dapsone , 10.8% (4 of 37) for rifampicin and 2.7% (1 of 37) for ofloxacin among cases of relapse , whereas it was 12.5% (3 of 24) and 8.3% (2 of 24) for dapsone and rifampicin respectively among those with c/rENL. (bvsalud.org)
Drug -resistance rate among those with c/rENL was almost equalled that of relapse . (bvsalud.org)
Smear-negative leprosy relapse cases also had resistance to bactericidal drugs . (bvsalud.org)
These findings call for modifications in criteria for testing under leprosy drug -resistance surveillance and all cases of relapse and those with recalcitrant c/rENL should be tested. (bvsalud.org)
However, efforts to improve access to treatment are hampered by development of HIV, TB and malaria drug resistance. (who.int)
Drug resistance is defined as the ability of an infectious agent to survive or multiply despite the administration and absorption of medicine given in doses equal to or higher than those usually recommended but within tolerance of the subject. (who.int)
HIV drug resistance assessment is primarily through monitoring of early warning indicators at ART sites.3 HIV drug resistance surveys are also performed in geographic areas where ART has been widespread for more than 3 years. (who.int)

Trulieve commends HHS Secretary Becerra for moving on the President's October 2022 directive to review the scheduling of cannabis," Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers tells New Times . (miaminewtimes.com)

The United Nations' guide on Alcohol and Drug Addiction stressed the need to capture various stages of substance abuse. (hindustantimes.com)
The fifth stage is drug addiction in which the person loses control of himself or herself to drugs. (hindustantimes.com)
More Singaporeans are going abroad - to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and even Japan - for an easy fix, say social workers and drug addiction counsellors. (straitstimes.com)
The newest treatment for cocaine addiction may come from a drug that's already being used to battle high blood pressure and is showing some experimental benefits in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well. (time.com)
What this means for humans being treated for cocaine addiction is that while a history of abusing the drug might forever remain fresh in memory, the pleasant associations - the thrill of the score, the anticipation of the high, the first rush of the drug - would be dulled. (time.com)
Since then, the "war on drugs" has failed to reduce supply or demand, while steadily increasing drug overdose deaths and perpetuating the stigmatization of individuals with addiction. (truthout.org)
They can't stop - they want more money, they deny they have a problem, and they think the answer to their addiction is more money to buy more drugs. (mediamatters.org)
I think drug addiction has become so bad throughout Chesterfield that there needs to be a local anti-drugs campaign highlighting the risks, and reinforcing how easy it is to become addicted. (yahoo.com)
Drug use and addiction are preventable. (medlineplus.gov)
Prevention programs involving families, schools, communities, and the media may prevent or reduce drug use and addiction. (medlineplus.gov)

The N-pyrrolidino Etonitazene drug is a high-potency synthetic opioid that is between 1,000 and 1,500 times stronger than morphine, while fentanyl is only around 100 times stronger than morphine, local news station KKCO reported on Thursday. (newsweek.com)
The actor also allegedly used other people's names to illegally purchase some 1,000 sleeping pills, and used cocaine, marijuana and other drugs together with four others while staying in the United States in January. (koreatimes.co.kr)

In early 2017, the CDC released data on Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States from the period of 1991 - 2015. (hightimes.com)
For drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, which include drugs such as fentanyl and tramadol, the percentage increased from 8% in 2010 to 18% in 2015. (hightimes.com)
Steady increases in the death rate for Americans in the prime of their lives, increases driven by overdose deaths related to the manufacture and sale of synthetic opioids, raises profound questions about the true nature and impact of drug policy in the United States. (hightimes.com)
Concerning the data in the charts below (in this section and the following sections) deaths from the various drugs add up to more than the yearly overdose death total because multiple drugs are involved in many of the deaths. (wikipedia.org)
List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication Adulterants Alcohol intoxication Diseases of despair Drug interactions Responsible drug use Suicide methods § Drug overdose Fentanyl. (wikipedia.org)
The deaths appeared to have low blood concentrations of the drug. (newsweek.com)
They suspect poorly mixed drugs could be behind the recent deaths. (straitstimes.com)
The drug war's pattern of destruction is vast: it is also one of the main forces responsible for the militarized policing that the nation has been reckoning with since the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd . (truthout.org)

Like humans, rats learn to associate the positive experience of cocaine with environmental cues, such as the features of the place they get the drug. (time.com)
But rats given the blood-pressure-lowering drug propranolol before being allowed to enter the cage in which they'd previously gotten cocaine injections no longer preferred that cage to another one where they'd never gotten high. (time.com)
And curiously, one study found that people given propranolol while undergoing cocaine withdrawal had better verbal recall, suggesting that the drug indeed affects memory only selectively. (time.com)
O'Malley wants to reclassify marijuana under federal drug laws and make it a so-called Schedule 2 drug, similar to cocaine. (seattletimes.com)
Cocaine is the most abused drug after cannabis in the world. (com.pk)
Among these drugs cocaine and opium have become the most lethal due to their frequent use, claiming millions of human lives. (com.pk)
A Long Island man who allegedly fled police after they saw him involved in a possible drug deal died early Sunday morning after swallowing what appeared to be crack or powder cocaine and going into cardiac arrest. (stopthedrugwar.org)
In an August 1 Washington Times column , Wayne Allyn Root compared Obama and "his socialist cabal" to a "druggie who has abandoned his spouse, kids and job to snort crack cocaine 24 hours a day. (mediamatters.org)
Police referred Yoo to the prosecution in June for further investigation on charges of taking more than eight types of drugs in violation of the Narcotics Control Act, including marijuana, propofol, cocaine, ketamine, zolpidem, midazolam and alprazolam. (koreatimes.co.kr)

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday if elected president he would seek to remove marijuana from a list of drugs deemed illegal by the federal government, freeing up states to regulate pot like alcohol or tobacco. (seattletimes.com)
It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. (seattletimes.com)
Among the findings: teens who use social networking sites like Facebook are five times more likely to use tobacco, nearly three times more likely to use alcohol and nearly twice as likely to smoke marijuana than those who do not. (time.com)
But teen drug use is actually lower today than it was before the era of social media: for example, in 1995, before the Internet took off, 16% of teens age 12 to 17 reported marijuana use, 41% alcohol and 38% had smoked cigarettes. (time.com)
Another correlation identified in the CASA report links watching sexually suggestive shows like Skins , Jersey Shore and Teen Mom with greater risk of tobacco, alcohol and drug use. (time.com)
These teens were more likely than those who didn't view such photos to report using alcohol, marijuana and other drugs - but here, too, it's impossible to tell whether the link is causal. (time.com)
The contraband and the suspect have been referred to the Directorate-General of Drugs and Alcohol Control. (arabtimesonline.com)
Using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) codes F11-16, F18, and, F19, we identified drug users by a record in any diagnostic field of mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substances, excluding alcohol and tobacco. (cdc.gov)
The drugs that are most commonly used by young people are alcohol , tobacco , and marijuana. (medlineplus.gov)

The recent crackdown by the Punjab government has led to the registration of more than 14,000 FIRs under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act with 80% conviction rate as compared to other drug-affected states such as Goa and Maharashtra, where only nominal cases were registered with low conviction rates. (hindustantimes.com)
This index comes at a time when the Indian government is reviewing the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985. (indiatimes.com)
Mandatory qualification for the recruitment of chemical analysts in Punjab's chemical laboratories is not commensurate with the advancements in science and coming up of new subjects for analysing, specifically, cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. (hindustantimes.com)

India is hard selling its cost effective generic drugs to Iran and competing against the expensive medicines from Europe. (indiatimes.com)
NEW DELHI: India is hard selling its cost effective generic drugs to Iran and competing against the expensive medicines from Europe , according to Pharmexcil, the apex body responsible for promotion of the country's pharma exports. (indiatimes.com)
Instead of paying high cost to Europe, they should source drugs from India. (indiatimes.com)
NEW DELHI: A first of its kind global drug policy index 2021 that ranks 30 countries drawn from across regions on how humane and health-driven their drug laws and policies are, gives India a score of 46 out of 100 with Norway at the top with 74 and Brazil at the bottom scoring 26. (indiatimes.com)
Reflecting a long-standing global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty, the report highlights that only three out of these 30 countries - India, Indonesia and Thailand retain capital punishment for certain drug offences. (indiatimes.com)

Drug overdose death rates rose in 2015 to a level 2.5 time greater than in 1999. (hightimes.com)
The four states with the highest age-adjusted drug overdose death rates in 2015 were West Virginia (41.5), New Hampshire (34.3), Kentucky (29.9) and Ohio (29.9). (hightimes.com)
Drug Overdose Death Rates. (wikipedia.org)

According to ICE records, Tapia had been previously removed to Mexico nine times between 2012 and 2019. (ice.gov)
By comparison, some €21.3 million of drugs and €2.5 million of cash were seized in 2019. (irishtimes.com)
In 2019 alone, there were over 1.5 million drug arrests made, nearly 87 percent of which were for possession . (truthout.org)
In fact, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the federal agency tasked with implementation and enforcement of the CSA, had an annual operating budget of $3.136 billion in 2019, yet, 47 years after its creation and countless lives lost, it has failed to accomplish its sole stated purpose of reducing the illicit drug supply. (truthout.org)

Since 1974, High Times Magazine has been the #1 resource for cannabis news, culture, brands and marijuana legalization laws. (hightimes.com)
To date, 28 substances have been placed under temporary class drug notices, effectively removing more than 50 synthetic cannabis products from the market. (odt.co.nz)
growing cannabis at rented houses in counties Galway, Meath and Longford before harvesting his crops and selling his illicit merchandise to drug dealers in his native Crumlin in south Dublin. (irishtimes.com)
In 1970, President Richard Nixon went one toke over the line with the Controlled Substances Act, which one year later defined marijuana as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," making cannabis the purple-headed stepchild in a family of more addictive Schedule I drugs. (miaminewtimes.com)
With 38 states having already moved to allow medical or adult-use cannabis, it is time that the federal government finally take meaningful action to address the needs of our state-legal industry," Rivers said. (miaminewtimes.com)

In the past 8 years, extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis has emerged, and has been reported in 84 countries, heralding the possibility of virtually untreatable tuberculosis. (nih.gov)

US DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). (wikipedia.org)
The police urged residents to immediately contact law enforcement if they come into contact with anything resembling the drug. (newsweek.com)
The seeming lack of enforcement overseas means some Singaporeans "would rather face the risks of low-quality drugs than the heavy punishments and the social stigma here", said Ms Wee. (straitstimes.com)
Current analytical techniques are limited in their abilities to rapidly identify drugs that would inform both public health and law enforcement officials about the evolving drug landscape. (nist.gov)
The senator would call for marijuana to be removed from the so-called Schedule 1 of controlled substances regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration. (seattletimes.com)
It turns out those "purported Hezbollah operatives" were really "confidential sources working with the Drug Enforcement Administration. (hightimes.com)
Editor's Note: This year, Drug War Chronicle is trying to track every death directly attributable to drug law enforcement during the year. (stopthedrugwar.org)
If you come across a news account of a killing related to drug law enforcement, please send us an email at [email protected] . (stopthedrugwar.org)
He becomes the 21st person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year . (stopthedrugwar.org)
Some of the recent large seizures are believed to have been based on information about Irish drugs gangs obtained when European law enforcement last year hacked into EncroChat, an encrypted mobile phone system favoured by many organised crime gangs. (irishtimes.com)
This article profiles the features and benefits of a free online drug overdose reporting system that enables law enforcement and other first responders to quickly report and map the location of known and suspected overdose incidents and share information across jurisdictions. (ojp.gov)
The analysis shows that drug law enforcement targets primarily non-violent offences, and especially people who use drugs: only eight out of the 30 countries surveyed have decriminalised drug use and possession, and out of those, only three managed to truly divert people away from the criminal justice system. (indiatimes.com)
The Drug Enforcement Administration is reviewing a recommendation to lower the risk classification of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. (miaminewtimes.com)
As part of this process, HHS conducted a scientific and medical evaluation for consideration by DEA," a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesperson tells New Times . (miaminewtimes.com)

this study aims to investigate the prevalence of drug use in two secondary schools in a reference municipality of the state of Ceará. (bvsalud.org)
No national data exist for the prevalence of injection drug use in England ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)

How old were you the first time you used marijuana or hashish? (cdc.gov)

Jang Seong-hoon, chief operating officer of Elevar Therapeutics, HLB's U.S. subsidiary, explains the efficacy and safety of the company's Rivoceranib anticancer drug during a symposium hosted by Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in Washington, D.C., March 21. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Jin Yang-gon, chairman of HLB Group, wrote on the company's website that he was grateful to employees and shareholders who had endured a very long and tough time before filing the NDA. (koreatimes.co.kr)

The Democratic presidential candidate said the nation's massive prison population and more than 600,000 arrests last year for marijuana possession demands a shift in the country's drug laws. (seattletimes.com)
It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana," Sanders said. (seattletimes.com)
Since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted 50 years ago, drug arrests - the vast majority of which have been for possession alone - and incarceration rates in the United States have skyrocketed, decimating communities of color which have been disproportionately targeted. (truthout.org)
As arrests have increased, political leaders have vilified drugs and the people who use them, painting them as a dangerous part of society. (truthout.org)
Because of funding schemes connected to the drug war - such as civil asset forfeiture laws, the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant and 1033 programs - local police departments receive military weapons transfers and other financial incentives connected to drug arrests, which put our communities further in the crosshairs of state-sanctioned violence. (truthout.org)

Actor Yoo Ah-in leaves the drug crime investigation unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in Seoul, May 17, after being questioned for the second time over allegations of illegal drug use. (koreatimes.co.kr)
The mayor of a small Maryland town and his spouse were held at gunpoint for hours on unfounded drug allegations, during which time officers shot and killed their two dogs. (thenation.com)

TIME generates a tremendous amount of data on safety and efficacy during the earliest stage of lead selection. (genengnews.com)
This can change the whole paradigm of safety and efficacy during drug development. (genengnews.com)
Practice guideline update: Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs I: Treatment of new-onset epilepsy. (msdmanuals.com)

Both of these drugs are largely produced and used in North America followed by Europe and Africa. (com.pk)

Pyro, the street name of a new drug that is stronger than the high-risk narcotic fentanyl, has been circulating in Colorado and recently reportedly killed at least one person in Denver. (newsweek.com)

At least he managed to avoid getting a criminal record for drug possession - that would have ruined his life. (stopthedrugwar.org)
ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was arrested on a handful of charges Thursday, after police say he was in possession of drugs and an illegal firearm. (rockrivertimes.com)

Scientists in the city have found that combining anti-malarial drugs with conventional anti-tuberculosis drugs can significantly cut downtime to treat TB. (deccanherald.com)
The study shows, for the first time, that at the level of macrophages, immune tuberculosis cells are different from each other - based on the type of macrophage they enter," Dr Singh said. (deccanherald.com)

The TIME platform was then extended to include the capability to create totally synthetic chemical libraries, with built-in medicinal properties. (genengnews.com)
The resulting synthetic chemical library also can be inspired by hits obtained from the engineered bacteria, thus allowing the biologically evolved chemical scaffolds to be further "evolved" to ideal drug candidates. (genengnews.com)

And for the misuse of prescription drugs, such as tablets, syrups and injections, the same are supplied by some chemists and peddlers. (hindustantimes.com)
Taken together, the developments help explain why, a year and a half after Mr. Trump took office, prescription drugs cost more than ever. (democrats.org)
The US pharmaceutical industry has raised drug prices some 1,186 times this year, according to Patients for Affordable Drugs, an advocacy group seeking to rein in the sky-high cost of prescription drugs. (rt.com)
He pointed out that there was widespread support for capping the cost of prescription drugs across the political spectrum and questioned why nothing had been done. (rt.com)
The paper's writers also noted that newly-launched prescription drugs cost 20% more year over year from 2008 until 2021. (rt.com)

The report, titled " War Comes Home ," finds that SWAT teams, equipped with assault rifles and armored vehicles, are mostly used to search suspected drug offenders' homes, rather than rescuing hostages or stopping active shooters. (thenation.com)
At least 36 percent of drug search deployments, and as many as 65 percent, turned up no evidence of contraband. (thenation.com)

We used a class of drugs that has been around for almost a century to treat other diseases to block the 'danger' signal in a mouse model, allowing cells to return to normal metabolism and restore cell communication. (dailymail.co.uk)
Pharmacogenomic testing, which uses a blood, saliva, or buccal swab sample, could help identify genetic variants involved in drug metabolism and response as well as guide prescribing and reduce adverse effects, the authors write. (medscape.com)

My best friend Ali left Korea and I was left with no close friends and I was sad, but it made me make new friends who do music, and finally got me into making music," he told The Korea Times. (koreatimes.co.kr)

You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. (latimes.com)
Joseph Serna is the deputy editor of culture and talent at the Los Angeles Times and helps oversee its career training and recruitment efforts. (latimes.com)

He got into drag in 2014, before it was a regular thing, and chose the performer name Hurricane Kimchi , mimicking BoA's song "Hurricane Venus" and also a blatant nod to his Korean heritage. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Even if it's a bit cheesy, I wanted to have a very obviously Korean drag name, for representation reasons," he said. (koreatimes.co.kr)
If successful, it would become the first Korean biotechnology company to win a new drug approval in the U.S., the company said Thursday. (koreatimes.co.kr)
This is the first time a Korean biopharmaceutical company has completed its own clinical trials for a new anticancer drug and proceeded with the NDA process," a company spokesman said. (koreatimes.co.kr)

Patients should be closely monitored because the 2 drugs can interact, interfering with either drug's rate of metabolic degradation. (msdmanuals.com)

MANILA (NYTIMES) - Security forces killed 12 people during a drug raid in the southern Philippines on Saturday (Jan 23), officials said. (straitstimes.com)
She contacted the Otago Daily Times after reading about the growing concern over the product and its effect on young people. (odt.co.nz)
I wanted to tell people that someone who looks so different or weird ― me in drag, LGBTQ people ― is actually just a human and the same as others/you/me out of drag, and that we are everywhere in their everyday life, whether they noticed it or not," he explained. (koreatimes.co.kr)
All these things are coming up to the surface because now people acknowledge them, and I can assure you it's happening not just naturally as times goes by. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Collins would harvest and vacuum pack the crop and then travel up and down to Dublin to sell the drugs to people he refused to name in Garda interviews. (irishtimes.com)
She had a style that some people might not understand," Waters tells TIME. (yahoo.com)
Few use drugs as something recreational but many people use them due to various factors attached to social disorientation as well as poverty. (com.pk)
Drag Queen Story Time mirrors the imaginative fun of childhood, allowing children to experience a world in which people can be who they want to be - a world where dress-up is real. (whatsonstage.com)
And regardless of whether or not people arrested on drug charges are convicted, an arrest alone can prevent people from accessing employment and educational opportunities, housing, or government nutritional assistance programs like SNAP and TANF. (truthout.org)
As with other components of the War on Drugs, the SWAT raids examined by the ACLU disproportionately targeted people of color. (thenation.com)
Why are more and more people in the area using class A drugs? (yahoo.com)
Why are drugs especially dangerous for young people? (medlineplus.gov)
The earlier young people start using drugs, the greater their chances of continuing to use them and become addicted later in life.Taking drugs when you are young can contribute to the development of adult health problems, such as heart disease , high blood pressure , and sleep disorders . (medlineplus.gov)
Which drugs most commonly used by young people? (medlineplus.gov)
Why do young people take drugs? (medlineplus.gov)
Young people may do drugs because they want to be accepted by friends or peers who are doing drugs. (medlineplus.gov)
Which young people are at risk for drug use? (medlineplus.gov)
Can drug use in young people be prevented? (medlineplus.gov)
These programs include education and outreach to help people understand the risks of drug use. (medlineplus.gov)

At the time of his arrest, Tapia attempted to escape from a second-floor window onto the roof. (ice.gov)
Uniondale, New York, where a man died after swallowing drugs in a bid to avoid arrest. (stopthedrugwar.org)
Prosecutors filed for an arrest warrant for actor Yoo Ah-in on Monday, the second time a warrant has been sought for him, on charges of habitual illegal drug use. (koreatimes.co.kr)
It marks the second time an arrest warrant has been sought for Yoo since the court denied the first warrant request filed by the police in May. (koreatimes.co.kr)

Use of multiple drugs should be avoided if possible because incidence of adverse effects, poor adherence, and drug interactions increases significantly. (msdmanuals.com)
Physicians should be aware of all potential drug-drug interactions before prescribing a new drug. (msdmanuals.com)

Learn about naloxone , a lifesaving drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose when administered in time. (cdc.gov)

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Garda officers hope that in time advances in technology will enable the accounts to be accessed so the bitcoin can be sold and the value of it converted to cash and realised by the State as the proceeds of crime. (irishtimes.com)
The seizure figures do not include drugs and cash seized by other Garda units and local gardaí around the country, just those involving the bureau. (irishtimes.com)
Garda sources said while drug crime was easier to spot last year on deserted streets during the strictest lockdown periods, that was offset in drug detection terms by the closure of pubs and nightclubs, which are seen as traditional venues for drug sale and consumption. (irishtimes.com)

The five-year study involving 12 scientists from three city institutions has found that the anti-malarial drug Chloroquine prevents the appearance of Mycobacterium, the TB-causing bacteria immune to first-line antibiotics. (deccanherald.com)

Desmopressin virtually immediately reduced bleeding time, enhanced platelet adhesiveness, and significantly increased plasma concentrations of FVIII and vWF. (lu.se)
The plasma concentrations of FVIII and vWF showed a significant increase after 4 months, whereas 7 months treatment with thyroxine was needed to reduce bleeding time significantly. (lu.se)

The Center for Forensic Science Research & Education (CFSRE) found that the new drug hasn't appeared in any past medical literature or patents, and that it is likely developed outside the United States, independent from the country's pharmaceutical industry, KKCO reported. (newsweek.com)
The president talks tough about drug prices, but pharmaceutical companies hear sweet nothings. (democrats.org)
The organizations in the Nordic Pharmaceutical Forum have invested time and resources to get a better understanding of each other, their differences and similarities. (janusinfo.se)

By 2010, the measure would commit the state to spending at least $460 million a year, mostly to increase treatment -- and eliminate incarceration -- for those who commit nonviolent crimes involving drugs or fueled by them. (latimes.com)
Dooley-Sammuli said the measure would advance sensible policy with respect to drug treatment, prisons and at-risk youth, for whom programs are also funded. (latimes.com)
One problem, getting a lot of attention lately, has been the emphasis of punishment over treatment, and the related issue of funding for drug treatment programs. (hightimes.com)
Long treatment time has been a major hurdle in TB therapy, complicated by the daily intake of four antibiotic tablets for the duration to prevent a relapse of the disease. (deccanherald.com)
HLB, which holds global patent rights for Rivoceranib, has been developing a combination therapy of Rivoceranib and Camrelizumab, an anticancer drug of China's Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, as a first-line treatment for liver cancer through its U.S. subsidiary Elevar Therapeutics. (koreatimes.co.kr)
Recently, the ministry of social justice and empowerment as part of its suggestions to the revenue department of the ministry of finance recommended that users and dependents caught with small quantities of drugs and their families should be treated as "victims" and not culprits and suggested compulsory treatment and rehab instead of jail terms and penalties for such users. (indiatimes.com)
Another important chart summarizes all drug-specific and patient factors that may affect diabetes treatment and includes the most relevant considerations, such as risk of hypoglycemia, weight effects, kidney effects, and costs for all preferred diabetes medications, in one location to guide the choice of antihyperglycemic agents "as part of patient-provider shared decision-making," notes the ADA (Section 8, page S77, Table 8.1). (medscape.com)

They say the Drug Policy Alliance Network -- a spinoff of Soros' New York-based Open Society Institute, which fights against punitive drug laws -- is using the initiative to chip away at its true agenda: legalizing drugs. (latimes.com)
It is time to reshape American drug policy away from the antiquated, draconian punitive approaches of the past and into a new era of scientifically informed, evidence-based, human-centered policies. (truthout.org)

According to police , officers approached Benjamin Jackson, 43, after observing the possible drug deal. (stopthedrugwar.org)

Drug trade has international dimensions, regional context and local sites. (hindustantimes.com)
It has its regional context, as drugs such as opium, poppy husk, charas and ganja are traded from the states of Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan etc. (hindustantimes.com)

Bangkok was attractive for the "purity and large quantities" of drugs for sale. (straitstimes.com)

Last month, the International Criminal Court in The Hague said there was "a reasonable basis" to believe that the Philippine security forces had committed crimes against humanity in the course of the drug war. (straitstimes.com)
A former drug smuggler and Van Gogh lover who evaded capture for over five years has handed over the deed to his private island off the coast of Dubai to Italian authorities to try and sway them to give him a lighter sentence for his many crimes. (hightimes.com)
A total of 23,285 drug crimes were recorded last year, an increase of 9% to a level only previously seen in 2008. (irishtimes.com)
The Dublin Metropolitan Region West division recorded the largest number of drug crimes last year at 3,204, an increase of 48 per cent. (irishtimes.com)
The death penalty for drug offences is contrary to international human rights standards, which ban capital punishment for all but the 'most serious' offences, that is crimes of extreme gravity involving intentional killing," the report said. (indiatimes.com)

The drug targets a cell messaging system that produces a metabolic response to stress. (dailymail.co.uk)

The 'striking effectiveness' of the drug in mice could pave the way to a 'completely new class of anti-inflammatory drugs to treat autism and other disorders', said Professor Naviaux. (dailymail.co.uk)

With the rise of terrorism in the Middle East and a change in the operations of drug traders, Pakistan has become a main thoroughfare for opium trade around the world. (com.pk)

The drug (narcotics) trade has become a vast business with users increasing on a daily basis. (com.pk)
Both groups have uniform chances of becoming addicted to narcotics if they use drugs consistently. (com.pk)

The HES database does not distinguish between injection and noninjection drug users and whether injection was intravenous or subcutaneous and intramuscular. (cdc.gov)

ABSTRACT A descriptive cross-sectional study evaluated the compliance of physicians with the Palestinian essential drug list (EDL) in all the government primary care clinics in the Gaza Strip. (who.int)

In the new study-a double-blind clinical trial involving 151 adult women with postpartum depression published in JAMA Psychiatry-researchers found that those taking the drug experienced a statistically significant reduction in depression symptoms. (time.com)
Preliminary results show that the drug called suramin, which is already used to treat sleeping sickness in Africa, corrects autism-like symptoms in mice. (dailymail.co.uk)
In addition, the model found that patients who underwent pharmacogenomic testing spent 15% more time in the "well" state without depression symptoms and 18% less time in the MDD state with recurrent episodes or refractory depression. (medscape.com)

This acceleration in the effects of an overdose reduces the time available to resuscitate and save an individual. (hightimes.com)

In July alone, 64 drug companies hiked their prices, according to Patients for Affordable Drugs. (rt.com)
Noting that Americans are still struggling to make ends meet in the aftermath of the Covid-19 depression, Patients for Affordable Drugs founder David Mitchell said the industry was continuing " to raise drug prices with no regard for the health and financial well-being of Americans . (rt.com)
On the home front, more than 841,000 patients in Florida have medical marijuana cards, Florida's Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) tells New Times . (miaminewtimes.com)
The model predicted that testing could result in 37% fewer patients developing refractory depression , 15% more time of patients feeling well, and a health system cost-savings of $956 million CAD over 20 years. (medscape.com)
No single drug controls all types of seizures, and different patients require different drugs. (msdmanuals.com)
Some patients require multiple drugs. (msdmanuals.com)
A single drug, usually the first or second one tried, controls epileptic seizures in about 60% of patients. (msdmanuals.com)
If seizures are difficult to control from the outset (in 30 to 40% of patients), ≥ 2 drugs may eventually be required. (msdmanuals.com)
If seizures are intractable (refractory to an adequate trial of ≥ 2 drugs), patients should be referred to an epilepsy center to determine whether they are candidates for surgery. (msdmanuals.com)
Adding a second drug helps about 10% of patients, but incidence of adverse effects more than doubles. (msdmanuals.com)
Once seizures are controlled, the drug should be continued without interruption until patients have been seizure-free for at least 2 years. (msdmanuals.com)

The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, funded in part by billionaire George Soros, would be "the most ambitious sentencing and prison reform in U.S. history," according to the Drug Policy Alliance Network, a primary sponsor. (latimes.com)
It is very well-crafted to move several steps in the direction of decriminalization," said Douglas B. Marlowe, chief of science, policy and law for the National Assn. of Drug Court Professionals. (latimes.com)
Drug policy in the United States has been subject to two major flaws in the last century. (hightimes.com)
Professor Peter Reuter has been mentoring Professor Alison Ritter for 20 years, since the early days of the Drug Policy Modelling Program. (edu.au)
Let's start with Novartis: When a lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic-film star suing Mr. Trump, revealed that the drug company was among those who had made payments to Mr. Cohen after the election, Novartis executives insisted they'd had only one meeting before concluding that Mr. Cohen didn't know enough about health care policy to be helpful. (democrats.org)
But the administration seems intent on adding insult to injury, by blocking states from carrying out a policy that might actually make a dent in the drug-cost problem. (democrats.org)
It takes away a substantial tool that a lot of states were hoping to use," says Rachel Sachs, a law professor and drug policy expert at Washington University in St. Louis. (democrats.org)
This overdose reporting system, called the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP), was developed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), with support from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. (ojp.gov)
The index highlights that the global dominance of drug policies based on repression and punishment has led to low scores overall, with a median score of just 48 out of 100 for all 30 countries which is assessed as a "drug policy failure" and a sign for urgent measures to deal with the situation. (indiatimes.com)
48 out of 100 is a drug policy fail in anyone's book. (indiatimes.com)
This index highlights the huge room for improvement across the board," said Ann Fordham, executive director of the International Drug Policy Consortium which led the development of the index with the partners in the Harm Reduction Consortium. (indiatimes.com)

TIME can perform a battery of assays in weeks that otherwise would take years to complete, says David Williams, Ph.D., Bactevo's CEO. (genengnews.com)
In the last two years, drug abusers here have been getting younger and more affluent, said Ms Wee. (straitstimes.com)
Two years ago, I wrote in the New York Times about scientists exploring evolution to discover the function of our genes. (nationalgeographic.com)
It turns out that a drug that doctors have used for over 40 years to kill fungi can slow the growth of tumors. (nationalgeographic.com)
Yang has years of experience performing at LGBT events and rallies, sometimes in drag and sometimes as Heezy. (koreatimes.co.kr)
The bill could also risk inspiring drug companies to price their new products even higher, given that it does not require companies to negotiate prices until the drug has existed for at least seven years. (rt.com)
After 47 years and over $1 trillion in costs, it's time to move toward a human-centered approach to drug use in the U.S. (truthout.org)
After 50 years of failures and substantial evidence that drug prohibition is not only ineffective but also incredibly counterproductive, we clearly cannot afford another 50 years of the same. (truthout.org)
Information on drug use is collected from all participants aged 12 years and older. (cdc.gov)
We extracted hospital admission data for drug users 15-44 years of age for the fiscal years April 1, 1997-March 31, 2004, from the UK Department of Health, hospital episode statistics (HES) database. (cdc.gov)
Hospital admissions of drug users in England for phlebitis or thrombophlebitis, cellulitis, or cutaneous abscess as a primary cause, for the fiscal years 1997-1998 to 2003-2004. (cdc.gov)

However, she said she had quit her legal high habit after a manic episode last month which resulted in her spending time in an isolation ward at a psychiatric hospital. (odt.co.nz)

Isn't it interesting that after more than three decades of using drugs to woo voters, politicians have now realised that the noises against drug abuse can get them more political dividends? (hindustantimes.com)
Four decades before RuPaul's Drag Race , drag was "the opposite of hip," Waters says. (yahoo.com)

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