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Nitrous oxide is used medically for sedation or pain relief and in restaurants to make whipped cream. It’s also used to get high.
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On Wednesday, a team of law enforcement agencies announced the successful takedown of a drug trafficking ring in Southern Oregon, ending in 24 arrests.
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The experiments with hallucinogenic drugs years ago were meant to find out if they had therapeutic uses... could LSD and its relatives help people? The…
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Drug addiction is one of the stories of our time. Still. The drugs change, but the addictions keep on coming, despite The War on Drugs and many other…
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The reaction was sharp and negative when Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of one of its drugs... from $13.50 per pill to $750.00. The company CEO…
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The HIV Alliance in Eugene puts a lot of time and effort into curbing the chances of people getting HIV infections. The alliance already offers needle…
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A bill signed by Oregon's governor has reclassified personal-use possession of cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs as a misdemeanor from a…
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Headlines in other parts of the country keep saying Oregon has "decriminalized" some drug offenses. That is not quite the case, but it is true that the…
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Stories about drug addiction tend to have some common themes. One of them is that people often think that they will NOT get addicted. And they're usually…
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The opioid painkiller epidemic took a strange twist when doctors clamped down on the prescription drugs. Users began turning to heroin as a replacement…
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Who would have thought that the drug story of our time is a story of legal drugs, prescribed by doctors? Opioids, prescription painkillers, became highly…
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Many of them are illegal under current drug laws, but lots of people believe in the beneficial uses of psychedelic drugs.And they'll get a chance to…
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No matter what else is going on in society, people get hooked on drugs and have trouble getting sober.That's kept Addictions Recovery Center--ARC in most…
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There's more than one approach to ending drug addiction.Lane County's Methadone Treatment Program uses a bio-psycho-social model. The program goes beyond…