April 29, 2014 — In April, Antoinette Brown, R.Ph., UW School of Pharmacy coordinator of experiential education, gave three presentations on prescription drug abuse to groups in Casper, Wyoming. Brown ...

Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, will make a virtual presentation to UB at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1. Sponsored by the Office of ...

Americans may not say it aloud, but drug addiction has long been considered a moral failing. "Just say no," as Nancy Reagan famously declared during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80s. That ...

This story was originally published on Nov. 9, 2023 and has been updated to include an episode on the topic from Life Kit. College sophomore Elias Myers thinks his friends are lucky to be alive. The ...

When the son of a family friend died of an overdose, David Magee was brought in to scare the young man's friends straight and convince them to stop using drugs. It didn't work, of course. "You know ...

The county's internal core opioid settlement funds committee has contracted Carol Ackley for the presentations, which will be held for WAPS middle school students during school hours and at Winona ...

DECATUR — Mark Sanders recalled his mother's urgent phone call telling him that his father was dead from a drug-induced heart attack. The call interrupted his first speech in front of a crowd ...

25% of Americans (70 million people) admitted they use illicit drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use. 48.7 million people nationwide struggle with substance abuse according ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In late 2016, Steven Klein realized that he’d lost control over his drinking and stimulant use. He became sober ...

The terms “addiction” and “dependence” can seem similar, but they are different. Dependence occurs when the body physically relies on a drug. Addiction involves changes in behavior. A person with an ...