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Rogue online pharmacies that sell controlled substances without a prescription to anyone--including children--are on the increase, according to a new report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse […]

Drug-abuse related emergency room visits involving amphetamine/ methamphetamine increased 54 percent between 1995 and 2002, with significant increases in several metropolitan areas in the Northeast, Midwest and South, according to [...]

Parents worried about their teenagers drinking may be misdirecting their concern, as the latest trend in substance abuse appears to be the non-medical use of prescription drugs, reported the Northern [...]

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee heard testimony earlier this month on the problem of methamphetamine addiction, which is depleting the resources of Tribal communities. "The costs of addressing the methamphetamine [...]

The director of Florida's Office of Drug Control, Jim McDonough, has said that prescription drug abuse, primarily of pain medications, is now among the state's biggest concerns. With six Floridians [...]

New data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) show that admissions to treatment for prescription drugs or methamphetamine as primary addictions increased dramatically from 2002 to [...]

Nearly half of the 1.1 million Americans in drug and alcohol treatment on a typical day last year were treated for both drug and alcohol abuse, according to an annual [...]

There are concerns that as prescription opioids become less available, more addicted young people in New Mexico will turn to heroin, according to a report published in The New York [...]

Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher has said that he and his administration view drug and alcohol abuse in the state as a "public health epidemic" and a leading contributor to homelessness [...]

Methampetamine use did not go up from 2002 to 2004, but use characterized as abuse or dependence did. In teasing out the figures from the 2004 National Survey on Drug [...]

Admissions for substance abuse treatment increased by 32 percent among older adults over the eight-year period from 1995 to 2002, according to a study released last week by the Substance [...]

Percentage Marijuana 40.6% Cocaine 14.7% Hallucinogens 14.5% Pain Relievers 13.1% Inhalants 9.7% Stimulants * 8.8% Tranquilizers 8.5% Methamphetamine 5.2% Sedatives 4.0% Heroin 1.6% * Includes methamphetamines Source: Adapted by CESAR [...]

Although Colorado ranks above the national average for alcohol and drug abuse, according to the Denver Post, it is among the lowest spenders in the country when it comes to [...]

Findings published in the American Journal of Public Health indicate that more than a million Americans abuse prescription drugs, Health Behavior News Service reported. Researchers determined that nearly 1.3 million [...]

The number of drug users in China increased despite the country's stern policies for drug-related crime, Agence France Presse reported. Figures from the Ministry of Public Security indicated that the [...]