Search results for prescription opiates

Consumer & Gadgets Feb 6, 2019

Why do people still use fax machines?

The fax machine is a symbol of obsolete technology long superseded by computer networks – but faxing is actually growing in popularity.

Analytical Chemistry Aug 20, 2018

Illicit drug use could be higher than previously thought; soars during special events

America's drug problem may be even worse than officials realize. And illicit drugs are consumed at a higher rate during celebratory events. Those are just two of the conclusions scientists have drawn from recent studies of ...

Social Sciences Aug 23, 2016

Study uses geo-mapping to identify 'hot spots' for use of fentanyl and other opiates

As the U.S. experiences sharp increases in drug overdoses, researchers in Delaware are using geo-mapping to look at the state, neighborhood by neighborhood, to identify "hot spots" where the use of prescription fentanyl—an ...

Biotechnology May 19, 2015

New potential for "homemade" opiates raises oversight issues

Writing in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have announced a new method that could make it easier to produce drugs such as morphine. The publication has focused ...

Computer Sciences Aug 10, 2012

Security researchers in force at USENIX Security

Everybody who's anybody in the no-longer-arcane field of computer security is out in force in Bellevue, Wash., this week at the 21st USENIX Security Symposium, the leading computer systems and networking security conference. ...

Other Nov 16, 2011

Thomas Edison's first wife may have died of a morphine overdose

When Louis Carlat and his colleagues at the Thomas Edison Papers, which is based at Rutgers University, began working on Volume 7 of the papers in 2006, they benefitted from what Carlat calls “an explosion of available ...