New Times Broward-Palm Beach

Boynton Woman Passed Out in Car With Child, Said She Was “Smoking Blues”

Jessica Lobig tried to juggle parenting with a prescription drug habit, and that combination has landed her in jail. The probable-cause affidavit says that just before midnight Thursday, Boynton Beach ...
STAT

Millions of Americans want to quit smoking. Critics say drugmakers and the FDA are failing them

WASHINGTON — Of the roughly 15 million Americans who tried to quit smoking in 2022, 5 in 6 failed. It’s a jarring statistic — and an indictment of the treatment options for an addiction that kills 480 ...
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Drug smoking can lead to severe burns, complicating harm reduction efforts

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. As U.S. drug use behavior has shifted away from injecting and toward smoking, public health experts have been almost uniform in their reaction ...
Psychology Today

Smoking Hard Drugs Is Now Killing Many Users

Most people believe that smoking major drugs like heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, or cocaine is much safer than injecting the drug. After all, there are serious risks of major skin abscesses with ...