Barimah, the Deputy Director General in Charge of Enforcement, Control and Elimination, Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), says the commission will pursue illicit drug traffickers through every ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

Staff and budget cuts will result in fewer services for people fighting mental illness and addiction, including Narcan ...

The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This ...

Drug overdoses are increasing for the first time in years and health experts are trying to figure out why - Street drug ...

Why does the U.S. persist in treating addiction like a moral failing? This program treats addiction like the chronic disease ...

More than 50% of Philly residents have family or friends struggling with substance abuse. One in three know someone who died ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 ...

Recovery from substance abuse is not about perfection; it's about resilience and growing, which includes helping others, ...

GLP-1 weight loss drugs, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, have helped millions of people shed weight and curb food cravings. But they create additional health problems, Kessler says, and there's not ...

Rilzabrutinib is an investigational, oral, reversible Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug designation to rilzabrutinib for the ...

Research from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that around 1% of adolescents aged between 12⁠–17 years misused air dusters in 2015. The Drug ...