A recent poll in Maine shows that six out of ten residents were “personally affected” by the opiate crisis occurring in the US.    The poll was taken by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram ...

According to a recent study, the number of Colorado teenagers using marijuana has decreased to below the national average.    Researchers conducted a survey on seventeen thousand middle and high school students in Colorado and ...

Alpha-PVP, also known as “flakka” has been steadily disappearing from the streets of Florida, but has now reappeared in Missouri.    According to addiction news website The Fix, “Reports that alpha-PVP had been seized in ...

A study recently published in The Lancet to determine the effects of dexamfetamine—an ingredient in the ADHD drug Adderall—on cocaine users undergoing heroin-assisted treatment.    The study was a double-blind, randomized test that found “60 ...

Aripiprazole, a drug used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and also known as Abilify, will now have a new warning on all patient information guides and packaging stating that it may cause compulsive behavior ...

Educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author John Bradshaw passed away on Sunday due to heart failure. He was eighty-two years old.    Bradshaw hosted a number of PBS television programs on such topics as addiction, ...

A new measure signed last month in California would raise the legal smoking age from eighteen to twenty-one in the hopes of deterring eighteen- to twenty-year-olds from adopting the habit.    The law will go ...

A recent study has shown that pindolol, a medication used to treat high blood pressure, angina, and hypertension, could reduce alcohol consumption.    The study was conducted by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ...

Last month the Southwestern Regional Jail in West Virginia’s Logan County opened a “twenty-eight bed residential substance abuse treatment (RSAT) unit” for male inmates with a history of substance abuse (Gaita, 2016), the first in ...

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry found that hydromorphone—a licensed pain medication—reduced heroin cravings and is an effective treatment for chronic heroin addiction.    The four-year, double-blind ...