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Top Drug & Alcohol News of the Week   FEATURED NEWS: Can Vivitrol Help People Leaving Jail Stay Off Opioids? Researchers at New York University are studying whether providing the opioid-addiction medicine extended-release naltrexone (Vivitrol) to individuals when they leave jail reduces their risk of relapse and overdose. Read More FDA Announces Voluntary Destruction and Recall of Kratom Products The Food and Drug Administration this week announced it is overseeing the voluntary destruction and recall of kratom products. Read More   Many Teens Say Peers’ Vaping Led Them to Try E-Cigarettes Almost 40 percent of teens who use e-cigarettes say seeing their peers use the devices led them to try vaping themselves, a new government report finds. Read More Help Us Continue to Empower Families:   Donate Now Tell a Friend People With Life-Threatening Infection More Likely to be Using Prescription Opioids A new study finds people with a potentially fatal infection are more likely to be using prescription opioids than those without the infection. Studies in animals have found opioids suppress the immune system, The New York Times reports. Read More Legislative Hearings on Opioid Crisis to Focus on Law Enforcement, Public Health House Republicans will hold a series of hearings on addressing the opioid crisis, with a focus on law enforcement, public health and insurance coverage, according to The Wall Street Journal. Read More As More U.S. States Legalize Marijuana, Mexico’s Drug Cartels Turn to Heroin Mexican drug cartels are turning to heroin as more U.S. states legalize marijuana, according to USA Today. Read More Other Headlines of Interest The Poison We Pick: This nation pioneered modern life. Now epic numbers of Americans are killing themselves with opioids to escape it. (New York Magazine) Fentanyl: The deadly drug haunting America (The Washington Post) How a Police Chief, a Governor and a Sociologist Would Spend $100 Billion to Solve the Opioid Crisis (The New York Times) Should employers keep testing workers for pot? (CBS News) Opinion: Opioids are causing people to go deaf — here's what lawmakers can do (The Hill) City Officials See Progress in Effort to Curb Opioid Deaths (The New York Times) Chris Cornell's widow opens up on his battle with addiction before suicide (ABC News) Cops to clothes donors: Please remove your drugs before giving (New York Post) Elizabeth Wurtzel: Giving Up Drugs Was the Hardest Thing Ever. And I Have Cancer (Time) Mr. Steves Goes to Washington – to Talk Drug Policy (Rolling Stone)

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