A study conducted by researchers affiliated with the School of Public Health at Georgia State University found that smokers who use e-cigarettes and similar devices were no more likely to quit than smokers who didn’t ...

The attorney generals of Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas recently sued Purdue Pharma, marketer of Oxycontin, alleging the company violated their states’ consumer protection laws (Lardieri, 2018). The accusations against Purdue ...

Hemp could be removed from the federal government’s list of controlled substances due to a provision in the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, which was recently overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Agricultural Committee (Doheny, 2018). ...

A health organization in western New York has hit the road to expand treatment access for opioid addicts. BestHealth CEO Howard Hitzel has noted positive reception to his company’s mobile health care program (Wooten, 2018). ...

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Vital Signs report, suicide rates have almost universally risen across the nation. Of the ten leading causes of Americans’ deaths, suicide is among only three ...

Fentanyl has risen in popularity as a frequently used and abused drug over the past couple of years, which leads Stanford University psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys to wonder if it has the potential to “permanently ...

Last month several people in Brooklyn, New York were hospitalized due to “. . . a toxic batch” of synthetic marijuana usually referred to as “Spice” or “K2” (Kim, 2018). There is a discrepancy between ...