Force explains drug needles plan
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Colwyn Bay councillors will hear from police who want to install a needle vending machine in the town.
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The government approved on Tuesday a drug that offers a new way of fighting severe pain, an option for patients who no longer benefit from morphine and other traditional pain medications.
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Scottish prison officials will give heroin injection kits to prisoners to fight the spread of disease, The Scotsman reported Sunday.
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Epidemic levels of hepatitis C among London&#39;s injecting drug users are a result of the government&#39;s &quot;sidelining&quot; of harm reduction drug policy, according to a study released today.
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Sheets of elastic, sticky polymers could replace sutures and provide long-term drug delivery.
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The government approved a drug Tuesday that offers a new way of fighting severe pain &#151; an option for patients who no longer benefit from morphine and other traditional pain medications.
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The deputy chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police calls for heroin to be prescribed as a way of tackling crime.
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The government approved a drug Tuesday that offers a new way of fighting severe pain - an option for patients who no longer benefit from morphine and other traditional pain medications.
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The government is to run a pilot scheme giving convicted paedophiles drugs to suppress their libido, or so-called &quot;chemical castration,&quot; Home Secretary John Reid said Wednesday.
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Heroin and cocaine addicts on a government scheme who stay "clean" are given drugs as a reward, the BBC learns.
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The District will invest $650,000 in needle exchange programs to combat the spread of HIV-AIDS in the wake of Congress's decision to end a ban on the city's use of public money for such efforts, D.C. officials said yesterday.
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Police get new powers to make drivers to take roadside tests to see if they are under the influence of drugs.
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration has joined a team in Afghanistan attempting to control heroin production, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
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New police powers to prosecute offenders for possession if they test positive for drugs when they are arrested, even if the only drugs they have are in their bloodstream, are to be announced this week.
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Eye specialists will be able to issue prescriptions on the high street under government plans.
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Doctors prescribing opioids in doses that seems high to narcotics agents and prosecutors are at risk of a trial. And once in the courtroom, anything can happen.
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Medics fear public safety could be compromised by the growing interest of world governments in using drugs for law enforcement.