Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center Psychologist Alpha Martin discusses the impact of drug abuse on users, their families, and the entire community. She also leaves advice on how to ...

International Overdose Awareness Day (#OverdoseDay) advocates for victims of drug abuse and honors those who have suffered and passed from overdose deaths. It was founded upon such principles in 2001, ...

NDLEA and HEPPWAS partner to sensitize students on the harmful effects of student drug abuse, emphasizing its irreversible ...

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Atypical antipsychotics, though not typically considered drugs of abuse, are now being used to enhance the effects of other drugs or as a way to counter the adverse effects of ...

Many of the prescription drugs that are commonly abused or misused are brands most people have heard of. Painkillers, also known as opioids, are the most frequently abused ones, per data from the New ...

This post was coauthored by Gabriella P. Oettinger and Juan M. Dominguez, Ph.D. As we begin the new school year, the importance of understanding the challenges and risks that students face becomes ...

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) joins the nationwide observance of the 2025 Drug Abuse Prevention and Control (DAPC) Week as the ...

Pink cocaine is a new designer drug. It’s typically a powdery mix of ketamine and illegal substances likely dyed with food coloring. Sometimes it may have a sweet smell, like strawberries. The drug, ...

Psychedelics are generally not addictive. However, at least one psychedelic, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), can cause tolerance. Tolerance means that a person may need to take higher dosages to ...

Millions of Americans have turned to kratom, an over-the-counter herbal drug extracted from the leaves of a tree native to Southeast Asia, for relief of pain, anxiety and even withdrawal symptoms from ...

Drug abuse among the youth in the Sunyani Zongo community is becoming a growing concern . Many parents say they now live in ...