A new Canadian study suggests that it might be possible to block your brain from learning how to become addicted to hard drugs. So far, the research has only looked at mice. “Researchers are pretty ...

President Donald Trump was recently briefed on the opioid crisis, and he offered the following advice afterward. The "best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing ...

Marco Pravetoni, left, associate professor of pharmacology and medicine at the University of Minnesota and director of the Center for Medication Development for Substance Use Disorders at the ...

Thirty secondary school teachers in Kwara State were trained on drug abuse prevention on Wednesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at a stakeholders’ workshop in Ilorin. The training ...

Police say unused prescription medications sitting in medicine cabinets can lead to addiction and overdoses, making drug take ...

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, and it addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 9.9 million ...

Drug or alcohol addiction is not a disease, says Harvard psychologist, but a matter of free will The idea that addiction is a disease is an article of faith in the study of drug and alcohol dependence ...

VANCOUVER – A sex worker’s heroin addiction that prompted prosecutors to effectively drop an attempted murder case against Robert Pickton in the late 1990s didn’t prevent the woman from testifying ...

Some researchers believe vaccines could be a powerful new tool to fight substance use disorder and overdoses, but some experts are expressing caution about the idea. Columbia University neurobiology ...

A total of 30 secondary school teachers have been trained on drug abuse and preventions by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at a stakeholders’ workshop in Ilorin, Kwara State. The ...