Methamphetamine addiction is on the rise again in many areas. Meth use by pregnant women resulted in a number of adverse neonatal outcomes, according to results from a systemic...
Study Finds Obstacles and Delays to Getting Help for Substance Abuse When patients with substance abuse disorder visit their doctor’s office or the local emergency room seeking help, finding...
Number of Addiction Recovery Programs Increasing on College Campuses For many young people, experimenting with drugs and alcohol starts during their teen years. By the time some of them...
Special Recovery Schools Help Teens Stay Clean Young people often seem to be at a disadvantage when trying to get off drugs. Less than half of addiction treatment centers...
Tiger Woods entered a guilty plea in court on Friday to a charge of reckless driving, a less severe offense than Driving Under the Influence (DUI). According to reports,...
The college years are a time when young people are exploring and finding out who they are, in addition to furthering their education. For many of them, this process...
Dr. Ron Crystal, a researcher at Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Medical College, is working on a vaccine to treat cocaine addiction. The inspiration for the project came to Dr....
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has developed a new, low-tech tool to help prevent relapse for at-risk offenders leaving prison. The Drugs and the Brain Wallet Card...