January 4, 2016 Teen smokers may be hard-wired to crave cigarettes Teen smokers might crave nicotine in part because their brains respond differently than adults to seeing people light up, a small study suggests.
December 31, 2015 Drunk Russian man declared 'dead' wakes up in morgue A Russian man gave new meaning to the term “dead drunk” — getting so loaded that he was actually declared dead and brought to the morgue.
December 22, 2015 The effects of chronic heavy drinking on brain function are underdiagnosed Here’s a sobering thought for the holidays: Chronic heavy drinking can cause insidious damage to the brain, even in people who never seem intoxicated or obviously addicted.
December 21, 2015 Opioid abuse propels record US deaths from overdose, CDC says U.S. deaths from drug overdoses hit a record high in 2014, propelled by abuse of prescription painkillers and heroin, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
December 19, 2015 The 10 biggest lessons we learned about our health in 2015 When we look back on 2015, we may remember it as the year women got their own "little pink pill," sugar and bacon got a bad (okay, an even worse) rap, and one lucky firefighter got a whole new face.
December 18, 2015 Veterans' PTSD may recur down the line Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan had a spike in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the months immediately after their return, but also five years later, according to a Dutch study.
December 17, 2015 US starts pilot program to prevent overdoses on Native American lands Law enforcement working on tribal lands in Oklahoma will carry a drug that counteracts opioid and heroin overdoses in a pilot program aimed at reducing narcotic-related deaths among Native Americans, officials said on Wednesday.
December 16, 2015 US teens smoked, drank, used drugs less in 2015, study finds A decades-long decline in teenage drinking and smoking continued in 2015 and use of some drugs by eighth-graders and high school students also fell, while marijuana consumption extended a five-year flat trend, according to results of a study released on Wednesday.
December 14, 2015 Moderate drinking may be tied to fewer deaths in early Alzheimer's People with early Alzheimer's disease who consumed light to moderate amounts of alcohol every day were less likely to die during a recent one-year study, researchers found.
December 14, 2015 Underage kids get alcohol ads directly to smartphones Kids as young as 13 may be inundated with daily ads from the alcohol industry on social media, and while Twitter has an age-gate which blocks direct-to-phone updates for underage users, Instagram does not, according to a new study.