FDA proposed crackdown on flavored e-cigs puts Juul on notice

September 16th, 20180 LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes from Juul Labs and other companies as it grapples with an “epidemic” of youth e-cigarette use that threatens to create a new generation of nicotine addicts, the agency’s head said on Wednesday. In a speech at FDA headquarters,...

Greater Detroit Area Health Council awards local Arab American activist

August 24th, 20180 DEARBORN ― The Greater Detroit Area Health Council has awarded Hassan Abdallah, co-founder and executive director of SAFE Substance Abuse Coalition, with the Breakthrough Award. He is the first Arab American to receive that distinction from the organization. The GDAHC is a multifaceted leading non-profit that aims to create...

Arab Americans share views on recreational marijuana legalization

July 27th, 20181 By Tamara Ajjour and Eman Jassem The Arab American News interns   DEARBORN — On November 6, Michigan residents will be able to decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use. In the United States, nine states and Washington D.C. have already legalized recreational use of the drug. If the drug is legalized,...

Senator Sanders introducing bill targeting opioid manufacturers

April 17th, 20180 WASHINGTON,D.C. — Senator Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would fine opioid drug manufacturers for deceptive marketing and implement the harshest penalties yet on drugmakers found responsible for contributing to the drug epidemic. Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in...

Ghada Abdallah appointed to Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority board

April 6th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News Abdallah took the fight against substance abuse as a personal mission one month after she lost her 38-year-old cousin to addiction. DETROIT – After being the first Arab American and Muslim woman appointed to the Michigan Pharmacists Association in 2016 and a member of the Detroit Wayne...

Winning a battle against opioid abuse doesn’t mean the war is over

August 25th, 20170 The community’s collective awareness and complaints that prompted police to investigate and eventually raid a Dearborn Medical Clinic— which turned out to be a white coat dealer’s opioid prescription hub, as many suspected— should not be a reason to let our guard down, but rather to keep up our unified activism against our...

Pill mill in Dearborn: The medical clinic that turned lethal

August 25th, 20170 DEARBORN — On Aug. 17, Michigan State Police, Dearborn police and the FBI raided the Dearborn Medical Clinic at Warren and Yinger avenues after residents complained about disorderly conduct, which prompted an investigation beginning in July. Judge Gene Hunt of the 19th District Court arraigned Dr. Mohammad Derani and his...