Drug overdoses and deaths are spiking in many regions of the country during the Covid-19 pandemic, less than a year after the Trump administration touted progress in decreasing opioid-related fatalities. Preliminary data from six states show fatal overdoses rising 11.5 percent for fatal overdoses and 18.6 percent for nonfatal cases, as cities including Milwaukee and Memphis report higher numbers.
Meanwhile, the federal government has approved New York City’s program to deliver methadone by mobile vans, easing the way for substance users in quarantine to receive their withdrawal medications without risking contracting the corona virus at crowded drug treatment facilities, where they where obliged to pick up their drugs.
And finally, a rally in pot stock shares fizzles after the debunking of a news report that marijuana and CBD could be a treatment or cure for Covid-19. The erroneous report was based on a preclinical paper that was blown out of proportion by the media. For the record, there is NO scientific evidence showing that any kind of marijuana or CBD product is effective against the corona virus.