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The emerging opioid epidemic is putting more people at risk of getting HIV due to the use of shared, infected needles.

(University of Illinois at Chicago, June 8) Heroin cost our society $51 billion in 2015, according to research out of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

(Westword, June 15) The psychology department at Colorado State University will offer a marijuana-focused addiction-counseling program in the fall for master’s students. 

(Gloucester City News, June 15) The heroin addiction epidemic is hitting many cities across the nation hard. But, in LA, meth is a bigger problem, according to local law enforcement officials.

(Newsweek, June 7) Hopes are that the vaccine will be used one day to keep former heroin users from using the drug again.

(Business Insider) Fentanyl, the cheap and powerful synthetic opioid often mixed with heroin, is now being found in cocaine in New York.

(New York Times, June 5) The number of drug overdose deaths in 2016 was likely the highest in our nation’s history, according to preliminary data compiled by The New York Times. 

(CNN, June 6) The California middle schoolers appeared “lethargic, tired, and out of it” not too long after consuming the drug, a school district official said.

The study’s authors looked at research that evaluated 500 students from affluent communities in the Northeast.

(Associated Press, June 1) Police are worried that fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that can trigger an overdose just through touch, could also pose a threat to drug-sniffing K-9s.