In 2005, the town of Needham, Massachusetts raised the age for tobacco sales to twenty-one and a recent study examining the teen nicotine use in the following years confirms that teen smoking has declined as ...

Adapt Pharma Limited has begun a new drug application (NDA) with the FDA for a nasal spray form of naloxone, which is used in preventing opioid overdose deaths. This submission is a “rolling submission,” meaning ...

A new study published in The Lancet Psychology states that there has been no significant increase in teen marijuana use in the many states that have legalized it medicinally (Wilkerson, 2015).    According to The ...

Mariam Crow and Kathleen Stitzlein are the biomedical engineering graduate students at the University of Akron who invented the “Cannibuster,” a device for the roadside testing of marijuana.    The Cannibuster is a potentially revolutionary ...

A new fingerprint test can detect if cocaine has been ingested, while earlier tests could only determine if cocaine had been touched.    “Mass spectrometry” is the process used to analyze the fingerprints of patients ...

A new drug that surfaced in Florida after a few bizarre incidents has been studied and was found to be as addictive as bath salts and more addictive than methamphetamine.    “Flakka,” or alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (alpha-PDP), ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently issued new guidelines for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for alcohol use disorders. These guidelines are specifically designed for primary care and specialty providers.    SAMHSA worked ...

Federal data released last month stated that e-cigarette use “among middle and high school students tripled from 2013 to 2014, while use of regular tobacco decreased” (Wilkerson, 2015).     In 2014, approximately 1/4 of ...

Florida’s prescription drug monitoring program is called Prescgram, and it provides data on “prescribing trends” and the controlled substance prescriptions of individuals. A recent study found that since the program’s implementation in 2011 there has ...

On their website, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recently stated that marijuana may be useful medicinally, especially for cancer patients.    NIDA’s factsheet titled “How Might Cannabinoids Be Useful As Medicine” was amended ...