The Obama administration has been working on an coordinated effort to help communities battling "epidemic" heroin and prescription painkiller abuse, which includes President Barack Obama traveling to West Virginia, a state particularly hard hit by drug abuse.
Adolescents and young adults who don’t get enough sleep on a regular basis are likely to wind up with substance-related problems, including binge drinking, driving under the influence, engaging in risky sexual behavior, and more, according to a recently published study.
The British and Irish boy band One Direction appeared Monday morning on the ”Today” show one member short. Though the other group members said Zayn Malik had stayed home because he was ill, host Matt Lauer pushed the interview further asking about drug abuse rumors.
As marijuana prices have plummeted in the last five years, in part because of decriminalization in some states of the U.S., Mexican drug farmers in the remote valleys of the northern Sierra Madre have began to harvest opium poppies instead and distribute cheap $4 heroin to many rural areas in America.
Dimly lit basements with buddies crowded around television screens and bosky public parks where friends are congregated around peeling picnic tables are the imagined settings for teenagers who engage in drug use and abuse. Though, the reality is that teens participate in drug use any and everywhere -and Latino teens are leading the trend
This will certainly sound like something from a Sci-Fi flick, but there is a "zombie" flesh-eating drug being abused, and it's probably coming to a town near you. Krokodil (pronounced crocodile) gives users an intense "zombie-like" high state, and the side effects are ulcerated skin and limbs.
Now in its 5th season, the third episode of Fox’s Glee, “The Quarterback” will be dedicated to the life and legacy of Cory Monteith, who portrayed Finn Hudson on the hit series.
"Melissa Explains All" About her Drug Abuse and Past Flings Melissa Joan Hart opens up about her drug use in her memoirs "Melissa Explains it All," which will be in bookstores at the end of the month.
Jodie Sweetin isn’t *in* rehab; she’s only *at* it. Jodie Sweetin isn't in rehab; she's only at it. The former child star who played Stephanie Tanner on "Full House" has had her share stints in rehab in the past.
