The first stage of the Opioid Detection Challenge is a $1.55 million global prize competition for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids in international mail. Keep Reading
The Challenge calls upon innovators to submit novel plans for rapid, nonintrusive detection tools that will help find illicit opioids being trafficked into the United States through international mail. Keep Reading
"To meet the needs of today’s world, to stay on top of technology... we have to be innovative and flexible." Keep Reading
Controlled prescription drugs remain responsible for the largest number of overdose deaths of any illicit drug class since 2001. Keep Reading
Plan aims to "reduce drug demand through education, awareness, and preventing over-prescription" and "cut off the flow of illicit drugs." Keep Reading
More overdoses explain part of the rising expense. But the cost of life-saving naloxone has also soared. Paying the price: police, fire rescue and EMS agencies. Keep Reading
