Last Place May Be Closed, but Duluth's Synthetic Drug Problem Endures

Published February 16, 2014

Last Place may be closed, but Duluth's synthetic drug problem endures
Duluth's drug problem didn't end when its downtown head shop, Last Place on Earth, closed, say health experts involved in a study on the impact of synthetic drugs. “These are people who have substance abuse problems, and they use what's available …
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'Killer Heroin' Causing Fatal Overdoses in East
"The dealers push this as being a super high, which it is, but it's also lethal," said Ellen Unterwald, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the Temple University School of Medicine. Users typically don't know how much fentanyl is …
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'Alarming' rise seen in drug–addicted infants
As prescription drug and heroin abuse rises in New Hampshire, doctors are facing a side effect of this trend: babies born addicted to opioids – drugs used to control pain, a condition known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). The state's reported …
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