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Nearly a third of teens and young adults improperly use tranquilizers, stimulants and other psychoactive drugs.
A recent study in Boston found that only 6% of people at detox centers who tested positive for either virus received follow-up medical care.
A revamped National Harm Reduction Coalition tackles the “racist war on drugs” and advocates for people who use drugs.
A federal grant for a Latino adolescent center in the South Bronx will help evaluate a new peer-based approach.
Antiretroviral therapy helped people with the virus add years to their lives, but now scientists must address other issues of longevity.
The rap star has made major diet and lifestyle changes and cut this opioid drug out of his life.
Health care facilities serving people who use drugs are well-positioned to initiate hepatitis C testing. But ’they don’t.
The 2018 annual survey also shows prescription drug abuse is expanding and opioid-related deaths are on the rise.
Why previous doping scandals in elite sports still cast a shadow on the Olympic Games
Saturday, May 7, marks a chance to promote strategies—such as needle exchanges—that lower the dangers of drug use.
This increasingly popular way to get high uses butane passed through a steel or glass tube containing bits of marijuana to yield a high concen...
Many people who use illegal drugs or abuse prescription meds don’t fit the image of a strung-out dope fiend, but this doesn’t mean they aren’t...
An advocate argues the approach lowers viral transmission and does not encourage drug use.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, now hosts the world’s first methadone program operating out of a mosque, The New York Times reports.
What are the chances that a total stranger might save your life? Ask Natalie Cole.
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