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Three decades ago, I would have been over the moon to see marijuana legalized. It would have saved me a lot of effort spent trying to avoid detection, constantly looking for places to hide a [...]

Counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids. Family and friends of people who died of opioid [...]

Every day in the United States a parent loses a child to meth and other addictive substances. For a majority of people; it would be unimaginable for someone to intentionally cause harm to the [...]

CONFRONTING YOUR LOVED ONE ABOUT SUBSTANCE ABUSE IS DIFFICULT. BUT TAKING A FIRM STANCE – AND NOT BACKING DOWN – MAY BE THE BEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE THEM. At 22 years old, Grace Shober was shooting [...]

Jan. 18, 2019, 1:46 PM MST By Maggie Fox Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb made his most direct threat yet against e-cigarette companies Friday, saying they face an [...]

SERENITY PILLs such as Benzodiazepines, or Valium and Xanax are widely prescribed to treat anxiety and insomnia. Also highly addictive, these drugs are involved in more and more overdose deaths.  [...]

Though I don’t suffer from addiction myself, it controlled my life for years. As a loved one, I felt the effects of the disease in profound ways. It severely impacted my mental and physical [...]

“The more we double down on the idea that pregnant women who struggle with addiction are terrible people and terrible mothers, the easier it becomes for… everyone else to treat them [...]

At the close of 2018, the U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams called on the federal government to rethink marijuana’s classification as it pertains to medical research. While the Surgeon General [...]

Despite misconceptions, mental-health conditions affect people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, and many recover. By Joy DiazJanuary 2, 2019 11:19 amHealth & Science Recently, and [...]