Drug and substance abuse continues to be a major problem across the United States, with 1 in 4 Americans over the age of 12 admitting that they used illicit drugs in 2022. 1 While alcohol, tobacco and ...

A previous post reviewed data about drug use among sexual and gender minority people. In addition to its direct health risks, drug use is associated with an increased risk of HIV infection. It might ...

Drug use and addiction are simultaneously a person-level phenomenon (individuals use drugs and may become addicted), an inter-person or social-level phenomenon (using is a social practice often done ...

Nationally, overdose deaths are falling. But not in Arizona. Source: Times analysis of C.D.C. data. Drug deaths in the U.S.

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July 28 (Reuters) - Altimmune said on Tuesday its experimental drug met the main goal of a mid-stage trial to help people with alcohol use disorder. Shares of the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based company ...

Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.” ...

In October 2023, an unthinkable tragedy unfolded in Coleman, Wisconsin: An 8‑month‑old girl lost her life when a driver, impaired by cannabis, ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle. In ...

Seeing dirty needles is always unsettling, and my volunteers were shocked to find needles all around us. T ...

Less than half of people experiencing homelessness regularly used illicit drugs in the prior six months. The most common drugs used by this population aren't opioids but methamphetamines. And a ...