Members of the Boston University community and other university professors addressed questions around the legalization of recreational marijuana at a forum Thursday in the School of Medicine’s Hiebert Lounge.
For first responders, the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone is more expensive than it has been in years. This past fall, a state fund discounting naloxone for first responders depleted, doubling the price of Narcan — a brand name of naloxone nasal spray — to $71 per box of two units for police and fire departments across the state.
SIFMA NOW, a grassroots organization advocating for the legislation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs) held a model installation of one of these facilities at Boston University’s Medical Campus...
By Shijie Ye and Carina Imbornone
Massachusetts health agencies are responding to last month’s U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration public warning about the spread of carfentanil, a synthetic opioid...
Boston University and other major research universities received a $12.3 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to research the link between alcoholism and HIV or...
For all those wishing to finally succeed at a cleanse and cut out calories, tobacco and alcohol, new research could lessen the pain and difficulty of the journey.
"Gut hormones" are the hormones that...
Aiming to reduce the misuse and abuse of prescription medications in the Greater Boston area, anti-drug organization Safe Homes Coalition launched a program Wednesday to help combat the opioid...
