Evidence-Based Drug Policies Possible

Published January 8, 2012

Evidence-Based Drug Policies Possible
Filed under: opium addiction

Supply shocks such as the Taliban opium ban, the war on Colombian drug traffickers in the early 1990s, and the Australian heroin shortage are effective at reducing availability, but are based on "a convergence of fortuitous circumstances that …
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Upping the dose on pain meds
Filed under: opium addiction

Hydrocodone belongs to family of drugs known as opiates because they are similar to opium. They block pain but also unleash feelings of euphoria and can create physical dependence. Drug companies are developing a newer, more potent version of the …
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OxyContin: the Worst Lethal Scandal in American Medicine
Filed under: opium addiction

They found this first in MS Contin, continuous acting morphine sulphate (M), and then found Oxycodone, derived from the opiate Thebaine. OxyContin had a very useful side effect, ADDICTION, which required more OxyContin. With good advertising, they were …
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Drug Crop Con: Opium ‘Sunflowers’ Pop Up In India

Indian authorities are on a mission to stop opium poppy fields from popping up throughout the north of the country. Police have destroyed hundreds of acres of the banned crop over the past three months alone. But farmers say poppy cultivation is their only means of survival.

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