The annual Monitoring the Future survey (by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan) released today points to a continued ......
When sober alcoholics are tempted to fall off the wagon, the same receptor is stimulated as is activated by nicotine in their brain. This has been dem......
Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have particular difficulty understanding numbers and sequences, a University of Alberta study sho......
Scientists at Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute have discovered a system in the brain that stops an alcoholic's craving for alcohol, as well as prev......
The findings, published in the online edition of the journal Brain [1], used sophisticated scanning technology and computer software to measure how br......
A new report from the Health Protection Agency shows that the number of people newly diagnosed with hepatitis C has increased; from 2,116 in 1996, to ......
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry applauds the 23.2 percent decline in drug use by young people reported by the National Instit......