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Letting Pharmacists Provide Naloxone Without Prescription Leads to Surge in Access Allowing pharmacists in Ohio to provide the opioid overdose antidote naloxone without a prescription led to a more than 2,000% increase in dispensing of the drug, a new study finds. Read More New E-Cigarette Ban Loophole Allows Teens to Switch to Disposable Devices The new Food and Drug Administration ban on most flavored e-cigarettes contains a loophole that allows teens to use disposable devices, The New York Times reports. Read More   40% of U.S. Counties Have No Providers Approved to Prescribe Buprenorphine A new government report finds 40% of U.S. counties didn’t have a single healthcare provider approved to prescribe the opioid addiction medication buprenorphine in 2018. Read More Help Us Continue to Empower Families:   Donate Now Tell a Friend E-Cigarette CEOs Face Questions From House Panel on Youth Marketing E-cigarette company executives faced questions this week from a congressional committee on their role in the teen vaping epidemic, ABC News reports. Read More Newly Discovered Cannabis Compound Could be 30 Times More Potent Than THC Scientists have discovered a cannabis compound that could be 30 times more potent than THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, CNN reports. Read More Other Headlines of Interest What Trump's drug policies have meant for America's opioid epidemic (CNN) We need to rethink "tough love" as a response to addiction (Salon)) What a Father Learned After Losing Both Sons to Drug Overdoses (The Wall Street Journal) What Does It Mean to Have a Serious Drinking Problem? (The New York Times) Justin Bieber gets candid about past drug addiction, getting sober: I 'felt like I was dying' (USA Today) Who Thought Sucking on a Battery Was a Good Idea? (New York Magazine) Helping A Child Whose Parents Are Struggling With Addiction (NPR) The Wrong Way to Fight the Opioid Crisis (The New Yorker) How I beat an addiction to prescribed opioids (MarketWatch) Ban term 'painkiller' to end obsession with drugs (BBC News)

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