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Irish Government Grows Ever More Hostile to Vaping

The Irish government has ramped up its hostility towards safer nicotine products by approving new legislation to further tighten restrictions…

March 10, 2026

Commission to Look at Methadone Regs, But Don’t Hold Your Breath

A new National Methadone Access and Quality Commission has been created by the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE). It…

March 9, 2026

CDC Identifies Specific Drugs Most Frequently Cited in Overdose Deaths

On March 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a published a National Vital Statistics Report on the drugs most…

March 9, 2026

New Hampshire Senate Kills Latest Marijuana Legalization Bill

The New Hampshire Senate has defeated a House-passed bill to legalize marijuana—the latest blow for advocates in a years-long fight…

March 6, 2026

No, Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Has Not Proved Narcan “Ineffective”

A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described as the "next killer drug" taking…

March 5, 2026

Impending Parks Ban Looms Over Phoenix Harm Reduction Efforts

A looming ban on harm reduction services in public parks in Phoenix has just been delayed for a further two…

March 5, 2026

Tennessee Prison Guards Want to Wear Body Cams. Prisoners Want That, Too.

Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn cameras for corrections officers in the…

March 4, 2026

Wisconsin Urged to Make Smoking-Cessation Tools Less Accessible

Wisconsin lawmakers need to do more to reduce a smoking rate that causes almost 8,000 annual deaths, says the American…

March 4, 2026

DEA Permanently Bans Five Benzos, the First to Be Placed in Schedule I

On March 2, the Drug Enforcement Administration published a final rule permanently scheduling five benzodiazepines under the Controlled Substances Act.…

March 3, 2026

The Kingpin Effect: Violence From “El Mencho” Killing Far From Over

Violence erupted across Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the February 22 killing of the drug lord known as “El…

March 3, 2026