Addiction quickly becomes a lifestyle. An addicted person dedicates more and more of their attention to getting drugs, finding ways to use, and concealing their use from others. All of these ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

Drug addiction and abuse is a serious issue across America. It is also a major issue in the Key City. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, over 20 million Americans were diagnosed with ...

According to DSM-5, dissociation refers to the “splitting off of clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness.” An everyday example is daydreaming. Or the experience of being so absorbed in a ...

The Drug Free Schools and Campuses Regulations (34 CFR Part 86) of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA) require an Institution of Higher Education (IHE) such as Hope College (Hope), to ...

An old drug has taken on new popularity — and it has doctors concerned. “We walk into the president's chambers (at the fraternity) … and there’s three dudes carrying, like, Butane tanks,” Hurley said.

In the sweltering heat of Lagos, Seun’s story could be anyone’s in Nigeria’s rising tide of drug abuse. The 32-year-old began his experimentation with substances at a casual party on Eleko Beach, ...

Christian leaders can no longer defer the widespread addiction crisis to schools and prisons. A drug abuse crisis is raging in Zimbabwe, with experts and medics warning that a staggering 57 percent of ...