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(HealthDay News, August 16) In the years following Massachusetts’ legalization of medical marijuana in 2012, calls to poison control centers related to the drug skyrocketed 140%, according to a new study.

(Science Daily, August 12) According to a survey, adults who take prescription painkillers while also using marijuana are likelier to have more anxiety, depression and issues with other drugs.

(Reuters Health, August 13) – Young e-cigarette users are more likely to go on to use marijuana, according to a new study.

(Health Day, August 5) Since the state made recreational marijuana legal in 2014, more and more Colorado teens are consuming edibles and “dabbing,” versus smoking the drug, according to a newly released study.

(Associated Press, August 6) For the first time in several years, the number of drug overdose deaths went down in 2018.

(Heath Day, August 8) People across the nation are dying after consuming cocaine-laced with fentanyl.

(USA Today, July 19) Drug overdose deaths fell 5% in 2018, according to provisional numbers from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

(Medpage Today, August 2) During 2016 and 2017, drug overdose death rates were higher in U.S. cities than rural areas, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. 

(Psychiatric Times, August 2) A new report sheds light on the severity of the drug crisis worldwide.

(Healio, July 22) Teens who misused prescription opioids during their high school years were more likely to use heroin later, according to a study.