THURSDAY, May 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — San Francisco researchers report that smoking has now replaced injections as the most common way of ingesting illicit fentanyl. That switch has created a potentially deadly new danger, however, as fentanyl residues slowly build up in shared equipment used to smoke the drug.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, May 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — TikTok is full of fun memes, pranks, dances and challenges — and illicit vaping product sales targeting teenagers, a new study reports. Advertising and sales of vaping products is common on the video-sharing platform, according to findings published May 23 in the journalContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A quit-smoking drug appears to help people drop their vaping addiction, a new study shows. Vapers who took varenicline (Chantix) were significantly more likely to quit using e-cigarettes loaded with nicotine than those randomly assigned to receive a placebo, researchers found. “We hadContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Powerful COVID vaccines could be setting people’s immune systems up to successfully fight off not just future COVID variants, but other types of coronaviruses as well, a new study shows. People repeatedly vaccinated for COVID — the initial shots, followed by boosters andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, setting the stage for a significant shift in the nation’s drug policy. In a proposed rule sent to the federal register, officials acknowledge the medical uses of marijuanaContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids and young adults who use social media for seven or more hours per day have double the risk of taking up vaping or smoking or both, new research shows. The study is based on a survey of almost 11,000 young British peopleContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The relentless rise in deaths from drug overdose in the United States may finally have stalled: New data from 2023 show the first decline in such deaths since 2018. “Statistics indicate there were an estimated 107,543 drug overdose deaths in the United StatesContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Babies born by C-section are unlikely to receive protection from a single dose of measles vaccine, a new study finds. A single measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in C-section babies, compared to those born vaginally.Continue Reading
MONDAY, May 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Police seizures of illicit fentanyl pills have soared in recent years, a new study has found. The number of pills containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement was 2,300 times greater in 2023 than in 2017 – more than 115 million pills, compared toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When folks in rural America need treatment for a substance use disorder, significant obstacles stand in their way, researchers say. They are more likely to have to look outside their insurance network for care, resulting in higher out-of-pocket costs, according to a recentContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New mothers who like to smoke marijuana might wind up exposing their babies to THC through their own breast milk, a new study says. THC, the intoxicating compound in cannabis, dissolves in the fats contained in human milk, researchers found. Mother’s milk producedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than 320,000 U.S. children lost a parent to drug overdose during the past decade, according to a new study reported May 8 in JAMA Psychiatry. What’s more, the death rate accelerated during the period, more than doubling between 2011 and 2021, researchersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Calls to U.S. poison centers regarding so-called synthetic cannabis jumped 88% between 2021 and 2022, as use of these legally sold products rose, research shows. Synthetic cannabis contain varying forms of the active ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC): delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Using mindfulness to help people trying to overcome opioid addiction can boost their odds of continuing treatment, new research shows. The approach helps folks how to deal with tension, savor life and reframe their thinking, the researchers explained. “Better treatment protocols could saveContinue Reading