April 6, 2016 US states should ban solitary confinement for kids, doctors say Too many incarcerated U.S. children serve time in solitary confinement even though the United Nations and many physician groups believe this form of punishment amounts to torture and should be banned, some doctors argue.
March 31, 2016 Marijuana addiction linked to genetics People with certain genetic markers may be at higher risk for marijuana dependence, a new study suggests
March 30, 2016 New York opens its first medical marijuana clinics New York's first medical marijuana dispensaries are opening their doors on Thursday, as the state launches one of the most conservative programs of its kind in the United States.
March 29, 2016 The drug Americans fear most is a legal one The second deadliest drug in the US after tobacco is similarly legal, and claims more lives than all illicit drugs combined with 88,000 deaths a year.
March 28, 2016 Federal officials, advocates push pill-tracking databases The nation's top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs.
March 25, 2016 Most Americans see drugs as a big problem, poll finds Sharon Johnson calls herself an addict, although she's been sober for three years now.
March 24, 2016 Pennsylvania coroner: Heroin deaths are now homicides There were two dozen drug overdose deaths in Pennsylvania's Lycoming County last year—each labeled accidental.
March 24, 2016 New twist in addiction crisis: Deadly painkiller impostors COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities are sounding the alarm about a new and deadly twist in the country's drug-addiction crisis in the form of a potent painkiller disguised as other medications.
March 24, 2016 'War on drugs' has failed public health, medics say Governments around the world should decriminalize minor drug offences because the standard strategy of prohibition is harming public health, leading medics said on Thursday.