At Q4 2017, last week Facebook reveled that in it’s whole companies’ history that they had lost one million users in North America, in the USA and Canada – which led to the total user base of that region to a small 184 million. Personally, I’m impressed but I’m also conflicted. I’m impressed that people …
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He founded a company, Yondr, whose small pouches swallow phones and lock them away from the fingers and eyes of their addicted owners. Since it started in 2014, hundreds of thousands of the Neoprene pouches have been used across North America, Europe, and Australia. People entering a …
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… drug use and referrals to addiction treatment. No such safe sites currently operate legally in the United States, and, in fact, they are illegal under federal law. However, there are about 100 such facilities in nine other countries, mostly in Europe as well as Australia and Canada. The first in North America …
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In Western North Carolina, those people include former addicts like Penland, doctors who redefined their careers after witnessing multiple patients die of opioid overdoses and a social services director who personally stops by the homes of recovering addicts despite her own challenges in recovering …
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SIFs, which currently operate in Canada, Europe and Australia, offer drug users a place to use heroin and other narcotics under the supervision of medical professionals. (SIFs do not provide drugs, nor do their employees inject users directly.) Proponents say they can help curb overdose deaths, improve …
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