Drug Addiction does not only impact the person using drugs. Family, friends, co-workers, and the community are all impacted by the drug user.
Moral reconation therapy, or MRT, seeks to make inmates think about the way they make decisions and re-evaluate their choices. more...
Zheng Sheng College in Hong Kong helps young drug addicts recover, finish school, and find jobs. more...
America's drug czar looks to Baltimore's drug court system for ideas for the nation's drug treatment strategy. more...
Some people claim the muscle spasm drug baclofen eliminates their cravings for alcohol, but many addiction specialists are skeptical. more...
A 23-year-old mother who was caught with heroin hidden inside her body avoided jail yesterday when the judge ordered her into a drug treatment program. more...
Using methamphetamine during pregnancy poses a significant risk to the mother and fetus. more...
The head of Russia's drug control agency said he recently urged the U.S. drug czar to begin a program of spraying herbicide from the air to eradicate Afghanistan's fields of opium poppies. more...
More details are surfacing regarding the role Howard K. Stern played in Anna Nicole Smith's drug use. more...
A new neuroscience research study attempted to pinpoint the specific brain activity that occurs within the first few minutes of exposure to nicotine. The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, showed that there was a connection formed between neurons within a single 15-minute exposure to nicotine, causing a long-term excitability between the neurons. more...