November 26, 2024 New York Post Ginkgo biloba supplement may help delay dementia symptoms
https://nypost.com/2024/11/26/lifestyle/ginkgo-biloba-supplement-may-help-delay-dementia-symptoms/

November 16, 2024, Alcohol addiction center helps 1,000 in first year: MOHW – Taipei Times
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/11/16/2003826988

November 17, 2023 South China Morning Post Scientists find traditional Chinese medicine is based on a complex network of proteins – 3,000 years before modern science |
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3240063/scientists-find-traditional-chinese-medicine-based-complex-network-proteins-3000-years-modern?module=inline&pgtype=article

August 18, 2023 WHO holds its first traditional medicine summit – Taipei Times
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2023/08/18/2003804934

August 8, 2023 South China Morning Pos  Licorice compound suppresses ‘silent killer’ pancreatic cancer, Hong Kong study finds, paving way for improved treatment |tkiller-pancreatic-cancer-hong-kong-study

March 14, 2023  Taipei Times Herbal COVID-19 drug receives EUA extension – 
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/03/13/2003796022

January 5, 2023  Watch Heroin use up 2000% in Kashmir | Watch
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/other/heroin-use-up-2000-in-kashmir/vi-AA15XSqpocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=7aac6c36ec9b4b3a9b85d54f719307bf&category=foryou

December 22, 2022  South China Morning Post Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Covid-19 – what you need to know about its uses, including the one in Hong Kong’s anti-pandemic kit | 
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3172362/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-and-covid-19-what-you?module=top_picks&pgtype=article

November 11, 2022 Deadly earthquake in Nepal rattles New Delhi https://sc.mp/pk2g

September 29, 2022 Chinese medicine could help relieve ‘long Covid’ symptoms: Hong Kong study https://sc.mp/k6jz?_utm_source=email&utm_medium=share_widget&utm_campaign=3194166

July 26, 2022  North Korea  uses traditional medicine to treat Covid-19 https://sc.mp/fmwe

July 26, 2022 The Hamilton Spectator. https://www.thespec.com/ts/news/world/asia/2022/07/25/north-korea-pushes-traditional-medicine-to-fight-covid-19.html

October 10, 2021 Taliban cracks down on drug underworld  https://sc.mp/781l

June 6, 2020 Beijing city plans to punish people for ‘defaming’ traditional medicine https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3087545/beijing-city-plans-punish-people-defaming-traditional-chinese?utm_source=email&utm_medium=share_widget&utm_campaign=3087545

Feburary 29, 2020 Traditional medicines help 85 per cent of virus cases, Chinese officials claim https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052763/coronavirus-80-cent-patients-china-benefiting-traditional

November 21, 2019  http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/11/21/2003726222

Jnuary 13, 2019 Walesonline, by Christie Bannon. The former drug addict trying for a new life but rejected because of his past – https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/former-drug-addict-criminal-desperately-15652848?utm_source=sharebar&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sharebar

December 12, 2018 The Guardian, by Marian Alexander. I don’t want to tell alcoholic patients to keep drinking, but I have to https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/12/alcoholic-patients-keep-drinking-doctor?ito=email_share_article-top

December 12, 2018 Mail Online, by AFP Fentanyl surpasses heroin, deadliest drug in USA https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6488619/Fentanyl-surpasses-heroin-deadliest-drug-US.html?ito=email_share_article-top

October 10, 2018 New York Times Magazine, by Jennifer Percy. A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/kensington-heroin-opioid-philadelphia.html

September 30, 2018. South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2166347/number-chinese-hiv-and-aids-patients-rise-14-cent

August 15, 2018, Belfast News by Shauna Corr Belfast heroin addicts supplied via drug mules on buses and trains – https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/belfast-heroin-addicts-supplied-via-15030651?utm_source=sharebar

October 13, 2017 BBC News Video Journalist: Howard Johnson The Philippines’ ‘Mega Rehab’ Centre for drug addicts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-41599694/the-philippines-mega-rehab-centre-for-drug-addicts

October 10, 2017, BBC News Why is heroin killing so many people? In the past five years deaths involving heroin in the UK have rocketed. Is it time for a radical solution? http://bbc.in/2heiMCx

September 8, 2017, by South China Morning Post  An abbot at a Thai temple treating drug addicts has been arrested for selling patients traditional medicine http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2110372/thai-abbot-arrested-treating-drug-addicts-medicine-lace

July 31, 2017, by AP Montreal, Canada turns to injection sites to fight opioid crisis. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2017/07/07/2003674086

July 31, 2017 by Sophie Cousins, Heroin is very good at getting rid of al my problems’; drugs and sexism in India https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jul/28/heroin-is-very-good-at-getting-rid-of-all-my-problems-drugs-and-sexism-in-india?CMP=share_btn_link

July 20, 2018 By Alex Therrien Health reporter, BBC News ‘Dangerous complacency’ to global HIV epidemic risks resurgence https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44884593

June 6, 2017 by Margaret Talbots’s, The New Yorker, The addicts next door http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-addicts-next-door

May 26, 2017 by Travis Gettys, Trump voters struggling with opioid crisis http://www.alternet.org/drugs/hook-line-sinker-trump-voters-opioid-crisis-realize-duped#.WTRCYl5258o.email

May 22, 2017, by Ashoka Kassam Canada First Nations reserve bars outsiders amid opioid crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/20/canada-first-nations-kanai-reserve-drugs-opioid-fentanyl?CMP=share_btn_link

May 16, 2017 National Post “I slowly felt my body shutting down”: Ohio police officer accidentally overdoses after trifiice stop http://nationalpost.com/news/world/i-slowly-felt-my-body-shutting-down-ohio-police-officer-accidentally-overdoses-after-traffic-stop/wcm/f6b63bca-6799-4a34-9b2b-4181108d3c00

May 16, 2017 Daily Mail Tibetan medicine lures patients seeking drug-free cures http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4504002/Tibetan-medicine-lures-patients-seeking-drug-free-cures.html?ito=email_share_article-top

May 3, 2017 by Tristin Hoper, National Post Exciting potential: Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics http://nationalpost.com/news/exciting-potential-medieval-medical-books-could-hold-the-recipe-for-new-antibiotics/wcm/a2305570-db9d-4ca7-a5c5-5bce0758b359

April 4, 2017 Vancouver Sun Dozen overdoses Saturday in Donwtown Eastside Prompt police warning  http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/surge-in-downtown-eastside-overdoses-saturday-prompts-police-warning

March 8, 2017 by Independent The drug helping heroin addicts that America is trying to ban  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/kratom-us-ban-drug-heroin-addict-help-quit-habit-fda-government-a7608421.html

February 23, 2017 Vancouver Sun B.C. coroner calls for clean heroin supply to addicts as January overdose toll at 116  http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-coroner-calls-for-clean-heroin-supply-to-addicts-as-january-overdose-toll-at-116

September 3, 2015 by BBC News Drug deaths in England and Wales reach record levels  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34136930

January 27, 2015, by Allegra-kirkland, AlterNet  Heroin Became the Face of Drug Addiction in Small-Town America. Like most heroin users, Ory Joe Johnson’s addiction began with a perfectly legal prescription Montrea. After a bad car accident in which he broke his nose, jaw, collarbone and ankle, the Wyoming native was prescribed Vicodin for the pain….http://www.alternet.org/drugs/how-heroin-became-face-drug-addiction-small-town-america#.VNPa73tVq1U.email”

August 26, 2014 The rehab centres that lock up addicts **In Guatemala City, thousands of addicts are offered treatment by churches – while Christianity offers salvation for some, many are held behind bars against their will. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/magazine-28934795 

July 20, 2014  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2191741/The-cup-herbal-tea-help-fight-breast-cancer-Plant-extract-kill-cells-test-tube.html

July 8, 2014  Opioid-related deaths in Ontario jumped by a whopping 242 per cent over two decades, according to a study by ICES and St. Mike’s.  Opioid deaths soaring, study finds

June 5, 2014 http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/issue+warning+after+rash+heroin+overdoses/9904868/story.html

May 2, 2014, by Cosima Marriner Desperate measures to beat the bottle  Tim Byrnes is desperate to quit drinking. So desperate he had an implant 7, inserted in his abdomen this week which could poison him if he hits the booze again.  http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/desperate-measures-to-beat-the-bottle-20140502-zr37t.html#ixzz33IFh0ste

March 23, 2014 The Telegraph, by David Browne  How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic.  Almost 30 years after first reporting on Pakistan’s then nascent North West Frontier heroin trade, David Browne returns to find a city,  and a country, in the grip of mass drug addiction:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10705585/How-Pakistan-succumbed-to-a-hard-drug-epidemic.html?fb

Feburary 22, 2014 Taiwan Times, Cancer patients do better on Chinese medicine: study http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/02/22/2003584100

December 28, 2013, The Vancouver Sun: B.C. struggles with treating the most serious of mentally ill drug addicts. B.C. estimates that roughly 130,000 people in British Columbia suffer from a severe addiction and/or mental illness. Read more here: http://www.vancouversun.com/search/search.htmlq=B.C.+struggles+with
+treating+the+most+serious+of+mentally+ill+drug+addicts.

January 7, 2013 by Amanda Williams Drug addict babies: Three born every day are already hooked on heroin and cocaine. Over the past five years in Britain, more than 5,500 babies have been born hooked on the drugs because of their mother’s own addictions. Full Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255976/Drug-addict-babies-Three-born-day-hooked-heroin-cocaine.html

November 26, 2012  by Josh Gordon and Aisha Dow, The Age   http://www.theage.com.au/national/doctors-steering-clear-of-addicts-20121125-2a1kc.html

November 2-5, 2012 Our staff member Thomas Yu and Nar Thakurathi spent 4 days at Aurangabad, India attending the 7th International Congress of Medical – Cosmetic Acupuncture & 312 Meridian Exercise, 2012 Aurangabad (india) hosted by Indian Academy of Acupuncture Science (www.acupunctureindia.org) to have gathered valuable data about India’s current development of acupuncture science. What they have learned will definitely enhance the operation here at our clinic.

September 1, 2012  Mail on line  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2195272/Heroin-related-deaths-drop-quarter-street-supplies-dry-up.html

August 17, 2012 by Megan Ogilvie: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1243530–oxycontin-replaced-by-explosion-of-small-town-heroin-use

July 6, 2012  Has anyone noticed that we’re only kind to addicts when they’re dead? http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/addicts-dying-for-love 20120706-21ly4.html#ixzz20WDbv7YF

April 19, 2012  World, By Jim Yardley. A border state with a history of opium use, Punjab has a large and growing drug problem that many health officials complain government is not confronting. Indian State Finds Itself in Tight Grip of Addiction

April 11, 2012  Three drug injection sites recommended for Toronto, two in Ottawa Toronto and Ottawa would both benefit from supervised injection sites, according to a long-awaited study on the issue. You can view this story at:http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1159581–three-drug-injection-sites-recommended-for-toronto-two-in-ottawa

April 9, 2012 The Star, Canada OxyContin replaced by explosion of small-town heroin use http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rupert-wolfemurray/nhs-rehab-is-the-nhs-trying-to-kill_b_1407675.html

Feb. 16, 2012  The story of severely heroin affected situation in Afghanistan. You can view at: The families of two Gateshead men who died after taking methadone are calling for a change in the law”.