The idea for this post was initiated when I read a snippet in The Fortean Times about a 34-year old man from New York who injected cocaine into his penis and ended up with gangrene and further medical ...

Drug-addicted veterans are being injected with cocaine by researchers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in taxpayer-funded studies, The Examiner has learned. The study subjects are being ...

A Florida man is accused of delivering cocaine to a hospital patient who was under a strict "no visitor" order and injecting cocaine into her IV. Vincent Frederick Sperling, 55, was visiting the ...

Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in ...

A new study published in the journal Addiction Neuroscience provides evidence that cannabidiol may help prevent the ...

Democratic candidate Tracy Mitrano, who is running in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, described her history of drug use in a yearslong series of blog posts that are getting renewed attention ...

Background: In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of ...

FILE - A homeless man, 24, smokes fentanyl on March 12, 2022, in Seattle, Washington. Widespread drug addiction is endemic in Seattle's large homeless community, which the city is currently trying to ...

Many Americans who inject illicit drugs are unknowingly getting fentanyl mixed in with their heroin, which can increase their risk for overdose and perhaps their tolerance for the drug. About 80% of ...

Blue lights on skin make it harder to see surface veins. As the “War on Drugs” declared by former President Nixon in the 1970s staggers on, science and governments look for novel ways to combat drug ...