Technology will soon make it possible to develop cheap, widely accessible psychoactive substances that are not harmful in the ...

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Polysubstance abuse, using multiple types of drugs at the same time, is a common cause of death from overdose and an ...

After Baltimore City scored a windfall of new money from settlements with drug companies, leaders unveiled a draft plan of ...

Inappropriate polypharmacy—the excessive or unnecessary use of multiple medications—is a major driver of emergency hospital ...

In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

In a paper released in Addiction, scientists reported that people with a history of alcohol use disorder who were prescribed these medications were 50% less likely to binge drink. The results were ...

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For now, all safer-supply drugs dispensed within the province must be consumed under supervision. Harm-reduction activists have insisted that no hard evidence exists of widespread diversion of ...

Virginia Tech researchers surveyed 350 people and found painkillers followed by opioids like fentanyl required the most attempts to quit.