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Cocaine prices have steadily declined over the long-term, according to a report from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) that disputes recent assertions from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) about the impact of a reported rise in the …
The recent Suboxone-related deaths of two Milwaukee-area residents has drawn negative attention to federal rules that allow patients to use the buprenorphine-based drug at home, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reported April 2. Some local officials blame wider availability of the …
New ads from the New York City Department of Health try to convince smokers to quit for the sake of their children. But some observers say the ads — which feature a crying child lost in a train station — …
New research suggests that women who stop smoking before their 15th week of pregnancy reduce their risk of giving birth prematurely and delivering small babies — providing a window for doctors to counsel women in early pregnancy to quit before …
States are in such deep economic trouble that even Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former lobbyist for the tobacco industry, is going along with a plan to raise the state’s tobacco tax, the New York Times reported March 21. While Barbour …
Beverage makers are ignoring California’s new law taxing sweet ’alcopop’ drinks as liquor — saying the tax doesn’t apply to their products — and the state has been stymied in its attempts to get information on alcopop ingredients, the Los …
Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera made Forbes magazine’s “self-made” billionaires list, sparking outrage in Mexico, CNN reported March 14. The magazine ranked Guzman Loera, a wanted criminal in Mexico, at number 701 on their annual list; his …
States’ efforts to fight smoking have been uneven, which may explain why smoking rates in some states have declined twice as fast as in others, HealthDay News reported March 12. A new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and …
At least two of Mexico’s three leading drug cartels may be negotiating a truce as they try to fend off a government crackdown, Fox News reported March 12. Experts say the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels may be seeking an alliance …
Patients who participated in an eight-week smoking cessation program stayed smoke-free one year after surgery and suffered half as many post-operative complications, according to new research from Sweden. Science Daily reported March 12 that researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute studied …
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