Young Adults Are Using Cannabis And Alcohol To Fall Asleep

October 30, 2025 Young Adults Increasingly Using Cannabis And Alcohol As Sleep Aids A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics found that 1 in 5 young adults (https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/young-adults/) used cannabis ...

EU, SCG, Niger Delta stakeholders seek solutions to drug abuse epidemic

By : julius_osahon (https://guardian.ng/author/julius_osahon/) Date: 28 October 2025 5:51am WAT Advocate community-based approach to prevention With the alarming and increasing rate of drug and substance abuse in the South-South ...

Health-based approach on substance abuse urged

October 26, 2025 By Allen Limos video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkb0U1mRJu4 t=2s) HEALTH experts urged a health-based approach to address substance abuse in the country. During the Drug Policy Reform initiative on Saturday, health ...

Plan to test Liberian schoolchildren for drugs blocked

Oct. 17, 2025 By Moses Kollie Garzeawu The education ministry is concerned about the effects of drug-testing on students Liberia's Education Ministry has blocked controversial plans to introduce mandatory drug testing in all of the ...

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 ...