25% of Americans (70 million people) admitted they use illicit drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use. 48.7 million people nationwide struggle with substance abuse according ...

While the sale and use of illegal and illicit drugs has long been a problem in rural upstate New York, local law enforcement and health officials say the problem has grown rapidly in recent years. The ...

Drug abuse is an ever-prevalent issue in the U.S., and in 2024 there were over 80,670 drug overdose-related deaths. Now, the landscape of drug use within the U.S. is changing, as new drugs like ...

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation's drug abuse problem. The primary ingredient ...

What was lacking was any real intervention. Nobody really tried to work with this kid with the tools that might have helped her turn her life around and stay on track. The scenario above cost a small ...

Leaders of the Marine Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., consider combating the abuse of both illegal and prescription drugs their No. 1 priority, but they cannot track the use of these ...

We had come to hear the words of James Gray, an Orange County, Calif., Superior Court Judge and former prosecutor, who was in town to speak about what he considers our country’s failed drug war. He is ...

DRUG abuse includes the use of any drug or medication for recreational purposes or to feel good, help with sleep and so on. They may have been originally prescribed drugs (medications) for pain, such ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — WalletHub released its recent study on drug use by state, ranking the states on where drug abuse is the worst. According to the WalletHub study, there were mover 80,670 drug ...