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NOVANEWS By William Edstrom Dissident Voice A heroin epidemic is on fire all across America. Heroin deaths shot up from 1,779 in 2001 to 10,574 in 2014 as Afghan opium poppy fields metastasized from 7,600 hectares in 2001 (when the War in Afghanistan...

Drug poisoning is now the leading cause of injury death in the United States [1], with opioids accounting for up to 40% of these deaths. In the U.S., prescription opioid death rates have more than quadrupled since 1999, and death rates exceed those due...

Clinton has detailed specific policies to address America’s current drug epidemic. Trump has made a couple vague promises. Donald Trump has called the US’s opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic "a tremendous problem." But unlike many politicians, Trump...

There was at least one matter of vital global interests that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on when they met recently in Washington, D.C. -- that the opioid crisis sweeping North America was unprecedented, that opioid...

For thousands of years opiates have been used in many different contexts. Going back to the pre-biblical times, Opium was used as a healing remedy, an anesthetic, ritual purposes and just to get high. During the 15th century opium use was widespread...