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People suffering from clinical depression are 3 times as likely to use opiates for 90 days or longer. Depressed patients are excluded, however, from trials that test the safety of opiates, due to an elevated risk for addiction.

Fleury apologizes for his play and behaviors with the Ranger during the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 seasons.

Many know Bill Wilson as the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, but few realize his brilliance as it relates to healing the human condition, alcoholic or not.

The majority of North American cocaine is now spiked with levamisole, which can cause a dangerous or fatal blood disorder called neutropenia. Public health officials in Canada who are monitoring the situation ...

British researchers followed 150 subjects for a year, and found that heavy ketamine use results in substantial cognitive impairments.

The FDA has served spiked energy drinks makers notice – prove within 30 days that adding caffeine to alcoholic drinks isn’t harmful – or we’ll shut you down.

Innovative NYC drug dealer arrested for selling marijuana juice; a mixture of distilled marijuana resin and grain alcohol.

Robert Enke, 32, the man who was to defend Germany’s chances in net at next year’s World Cup, committed suicide last night; stepping in front of a speeding train to end a life plagued by severe depression.

A quick and easy adolescent alcohol and drug screening test has been shown to also reliably predict risky adolescent sexual behaviors. Of those that score positive for substance use, about half will also have sex without a condom.

Congress is set to restore funding to needle exchange programs so long as they are located at least 1000 feet from any areas where children might congregate (parks, schools, libraries, colleges etc.). Workers at needle exchange clinics say that the 1000 foot rule makes getting funding impossible.

Mass. state drugs commission calls opiate use in the commonwealth an “epidemic” and to emphasize the point, compares the numbers of state citizens that die in overseas combat with those that die from drug overdoses – saying that drug overdoses cause 42 times more deaths.

During August a 15 year old was beaten to death and a 14 year old was hospitalized after a beating, in 2 separate incidents at Chinese internet addiction treatment facilities.

University of Wisconsin researchers compared 5 different types of quit-smoking medications, and say that nothing works better than the nicotine patch augmented with nicotine lozenges.