The DEA and Department of Education's booklet, Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide to Prevention, offers information to help parents and other caregivers raise drug-free children.
Words like “bliss,” “pebbles,” and “groceries” probably sound innocent enough. But people often try to hide their drug use through code words or slang.
(Science News, December 12) A newly released study found that babies who are born dependent on opioids have smaller heads than babies who weren’t exposed.
(CNN, December 12) The synthetic opioid fentanyl is involved in most drug overdoses, according to a recent report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
(Kaiser Health News, November 26) Hospital visits due to the drug methamphetamine skyrocketed 245 percent between 2008 and 2015, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
(Hartford Courant, November 27) According to a new survey from the Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., 65 percent of employers say that opioid addiction has negatively affected their companies.