Substance abuse prevention – especially when it comes to prescription drugs – requires a community-wide effort. Addiction ...

Aug. 31 (UPI) --The White House on Thursday announced $450 million for substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery support services as President Biden proclaimed September National Recovery ...

Sep. 14—The Community-Based Prevention Services of Neighbors Building Neighborhoods in Muskogee primarily focuses on providing substance abuse prevention resources to the surrounding community. They ...

The Army plans to tamp down substance misuse by telling soldiers to avoid poppy seeds and the cannabis concentrate, delta-8. The new policies are an update to the Army’s existing substance abuse ...

The HEART Program (Hands-On Emergency and Resuscitation Training) is in partnership with Ambulance & Chair EMS Inc. Participants learn three lifesaving skills: Hands-Only CPR, Overdose Response, and ...

The bedroom display at Lincoln-Way West High School is typical of most teenager’s rooms with personal belongings strewn across the bed and on the shelves. But a closer look reveals potentially ...

Sofya Hawrylyshyn has been sober since March — a milestone the 19-year-old attributes to Denver Health’s adolescent substance abuse treatment program, which she joined last year. Hawrylyshyn, who had ...

Provigil (modafinil) is considered a Schedule IV controlled substance due to its small risk of potential abuse, dependence, or addiction. The drug is taken to treat excessive sleepiness caused by ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has collaborated with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to improve on substance abuse control, saying the socio-economic losses ...

"Substance use during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage or fetal death, birth defects, problems with fetal growth or early ...