Your genes might predict if you'll get hooked on weed

By Abhimanyu Ghoshal (https://newatlas.com/author/abhimanyu-ghoshal/) October 14, 2025 Two key genes associated with a number of physiological and psychiatric disorders have been linked to long-term and ...

‘Bluetoothing’: Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Alarming Global H.I.V. Surge

Oct. 8, 2025 By Pranav Baskar The practice, in which users inject the blood of already intoxicated individuals, has fueled one of the fastest-growing H.I.V. epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa. A drug addict in ...

‘More positive interventions’: Bill aims to increase youth access to addiction treatment

October 8, 2025 by Meagan Gillmore (https://www.canadianaffairs.news/author/meagan_gillmore/) A new private member’s bill aims to make it easier for youth to receive addiction treatment as part of sentencing for drug-related ...

The opioid crisis among teens: What Alameda County schools are doing to help

07 Oct, 2025 By Madison Lee Any teenager across the nation is at risk for opioid drug abuse and addiction. Unbeknownst to many, schools are huge resources for students to learn about opioids, what they do to the body, and ask for help, ...

Smart patch reduces cravings for alcohol and drugs

Researchers encouraged by results in ‘immensely challenging’ first year of recovery Mass General Brigham Communicationsn October 1, 2025 A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham and Harvard shows that a ...

New Hampshire drug deaths fell 33% in 2024, NHFPI study finds

By:William Skipworth (https://newhampshirebulletin.com/author/wskipworth/)-September 30, 202510:13 am the National Institute on Drug Abuse (https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/21974-new-hampshire-opioid-summary_0.pdf), putting New ...

Benefits of treating opioid use disorder in county jails

September 23, 2025 by Brian Doctrow, Ph.D. The opioid epidemic in the U.S. led to more than 80,000 deaths in 2023 alone. People who use opioids are more likely to be incarcerated than the general population. The great majority of people who ...

Drug Abuse: Marwa asks families to acquire drug test kits at home

Brig General Buba Marwa …Says early intervention necessary to prevent full- blown addiction among youths By Kingsley Omonobi Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier General ...

$4.5M NIDA grant will fund research to improve methadone treatment quality

Today By Ann Hess, U of A College of Nursing New clinical trial aims to reduce work-related trauma and traumatic stress symptoms among methadone treatment staff to improve treatment quality and patient retention. Researchers will use ...

Toward the development of e-cigarettes as smoking-cessation therapeutics

September 8, 2025 By Dr. Nora Volkow Image ©Getty Images/AleksandarGeorgiev (https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=AleksandarGeorgiev) Since e-cigarette technology emerged over two ...

UNODC Trains Kwara Teachers on Drug Abuse Prevention

by Abdulraheem Muhammed September 10, 2025 in NEWS Thirty secondary school teachers in Kwara State have received training on drug abuse prevention under the “Unplugged Teachers Training” programme facilitated by the ...

Yaba’s grip: how cheap methamphetamine is fuelling Thailand’s addiction crisis

Yaba (https://news.sky.com/video/the-hunt-for-smugglers-fuelling-a-meth-explosion-in-southeast-asia-13407128), a cheap and potent methamphetamine-caffeine pill often dubbed “crazy medicine” ...