Drug Users Offered Foil to Encourage Treatment

Drug users offered foil to encourage treatment
Providing foil will tackle “significant health risks” associated with injecting drugs such as the transmission of dangerous blood borne viruses. Drugs such as heroin could reduce injecting behavious by encouraging different methods of use. … The … Read more on Nursing in Practice

Drug Overdose Deaths Up for Middle-Aged US Women
For many decades, the overwhelming majority of U.S. overdose deaths were men killed by heroin or cocaine. But by 2010, 40%were women, most of them middle-aged women who took prescription painkillers. Overdose deaths in the U.S. are rising fastest … Read more on Sci-Tech Today