The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) and the Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) released their latest alert, Changes Related to COVID-19 in the Illegal Drug Supply and Access to Services, and Resulting Health Harms . This CCENDU alert was developed in response to indications that COVID-19-related disruption to an already-unpredictable market […]
Synthetic drugs are being discovered about once a week. It’s tough to keep up with all the trends. After all, which ones should you pay attention to when they come out? The best way to keep up with them is to look at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) quarterly analysis of synthetic drug trends. The […]
Yes, you can get high on nutmeg. This is the same nutmeg that may be in your spice cabinet in the kitchen. Kids have been using nutmeg to get high for decades, but thanks to the Nutmeg Challenge, it is becoming even more popular and dangerous. A TIKTOK video about a woman challenging others to […]
Ethyl-U-47700 is this week’s newest drug to come to market. On average, one new drug comes to the illicit market each week. Ethyl-U-47700 is classified as a novel opioid. Novel opioids have been reported to cause opioid-like effects similar to heroin and fentanyl. Novel opioids in the trans-N-[2-(methylamino)cyclohexyl]-benzamide class (e.g. U-47700) and similar classes (e.g. […]
