A popular debate surrounding marijuana has been whether or not it is a “gateway” drug. A “gateway” drug is a substance can make it more likely that a person...
Big news hit recently when CVS drug store became the first pharmacy to announce that they were going to be offering naloxone for sale without a prescription. The opioid...
Thieves, con artists and other criminals often target the most vulnerable people for their scams, heartlessly preying on their victims. While most of us have heard of credit card...
When it comes to heroin abuse and prescription painkiller abuse, researchers have been trying to determine all the factors that connect the two, beyond the obvious similarity in being...
Colleges and universities that receive federal funding are required to report crimes and illegal behavior on and near their campuses. Researchers at Project Know analyzed these reports, which are...
A recent article in the New York Times examined the death certificates of some 60 million Americans between 1999 and 2014, gathering the information from the Centers for Disease...
Now that a handful of states have voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use by adults, we’re starting to see some of the ways that affects communities. One way...
There have been many trends in substance abuse over the past century or so in America as well as other countries. One of the latest, and equally dangerous, problems...
Researchers at New York University reported that about 75% of high school heroin users started off using prescription painkillers first. The fact that so many children have access to...