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Opioid Pain Reliever Overdoses Among U.S. Women

A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the worsening epidemic of deaths due to overdoses of prescription pain relievers...

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CNS Prescription Drug Abuse

A recent report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the United States highlights the fact that prescription drug abuse is not limited to painkillers but extends into...

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Preventing Unintentional Ingestion of Marijuana by Children

Editor Note – The following guest blog post is by Jodi Duke, MPH.  Jodi is a PhD student in the Health Systems, Management and Policy Department at the Colorado School of Public Health.  Disclosure – I...

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Buprenorphine

There is a very interesting in-depth series in the New York Times on the benefits and dangers of the use of buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction....

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The next frontier in protecting children from recreational marijuana in Colorado

The U.S. state of Colorado operationalized the legalization of recreational marijuana at the beginning of this year.  You can now walk into one of 34 marijuana dispensaries in the state and buy a...

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Medical marijuana laws associated with decreased fatal opioid overdoses in...

Really interesting paper published by Bachhuber and colleagues recently in JAMA Internal Medicine looking at the association between medical marijuana laws and opioid analgesic overdose in US states...

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More background on our new blogging team

Today I will share more about our blogging team members. Blog 2: Explain your injury prevention research and interests. Sheree Bekker: My research investigates safety promotion and injury prevention...

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More background on our blogging team

Blog 3: So today I wanted to share some more background on our blogging team. As an applied social psychologist, I find this information very interesting indeed! What excites you about being part of...

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Concern for prehospital care/ambulance services

I spent last week travelling in Adjumani district (located in Northern Uganda) as part of an exercise in improving the quality of immunization data through support supervision and mentor-ship. This...

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Opioid Pain Reliever Overdoses Among U.S. Women

A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the worsening epidemic of deaths due to overdoses of prescription pain relievers...

View Article

CNS Prescription Drug Abuse

A recent report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the United States highlights the fact that prescription drug abuse is not limited to painkillers but extends into...

View Article

Preventing Unintentional Ingestion of Marijuana by Children

Editor Note – The following guest blog post is by Jodi Duke, MPH.  Jodi is a PhD student in the Health Systems, Management and Policy Department at the Colorado School of Public Health.  Disclosure – I...

View Article

Buprenorphine

There is a very interesting in-depth series in the New York Times on the benefits and dangers of the use of buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction....

View Article


The next frontier in protecting children from recreational marijuana in Colorado

The U.S. state of Colorado operationalized the legalization of recreational marijuana at the beginning of this year.  You can now walk into one of 34 marijuana dispensaries in the state and buy a...

View Article

Medical marijuana laws associated with decreased fatal opioid overdoses in...

Really interesting paper published by Bachhuber and colleagues recently in JAMA Internal Medicine looking at the association between medical marijuana laws and opioid analgesic overdose in US states...

View Article


More background on our new blogging team

Today I will share more about our blogging team members. Blog 2: Explain your injury prevention research and interests. Sheree Bekker: My research investigates safety promotion and injury prevention...

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More background on our blogging team

Blog 3: So today I wanted to share some more background on our blogging team. As an applied social psychologist, I find this information very interesting indeed! What excites you about being part of...

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Concern for prehospital care/ambulance services

I spent last week travelling in Adjumani district (located in Northern Uganda) as part of an exercise in improving the quality of immunization data through support supervision and mentor-ship. This...

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