Only a tiny percentage of people addicted to alcohol or drugs take medication for it. Why not? It's complicated, but the ...

George is now in recovery after a decade of addiction to ketamine. "I used to go to festivals and it was a cheap drug to get," he said. " I started using it socially but then I started using it ...

Instead of solely focusing on punitive measures, INDEPTH is an interactive program that teaches students about nicotine dependence, establishing healthy alternatives and how to kick the unhealthy ...

The Ontario government said Thursday nine existing supervised drug consumption sites throughout the province have been approved to transition into new "homelessness and addiction recovery hubs.

Lead author and addiction ... on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED), said the results were promising. "There is currently no pharmacotherapy approved for treating methamphetamine dependence," Professor ...

Substance abuse in the United States is one of the leading health conditions impacting millions of lives and due to many types of drug addictions. Since 2000, there have been 700,000 overdose deaths ...

This is when there are signs of addiction because of a mother taking legal or illegal drugs during pregnancy. The health boards reporting the most cases were NHS Lothian with 774, NHS Grampian ...

He admitted under cross examination that he had had a quite heavy drug dependency problem and alcohol problem. Mr Kehoe asked: “Would that affect your ability to work?” Brophy replied “No ...

The National Coordinator of the Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC), Abdu Mukhtar, has highlighted plans to reduce Nigeria’s dependence on imported drugs ...

wants to put an end to addiction stigma. Picture: Supplied It’s not just an autobiographical experience for Mr Veenker – the World Health Organisation has ranked illegal drug dependence as the ...