A new memoir, "Unshrunk," offers a scathing critique of the psychiatric drug industry, and forges a new path to healing.

Recreational drugs can ... of the long-term effects of depressants on the body include damage to the liver, brain and heart. They can also have the following effects: Solvent abuse causes a ...

Ketamine is called a dissociative drug because during a high, which lasts about an hour, people might feel detached from ...

A national health crisis, 3 million people in the U.S. have opioid use disorder (OUD), or they’ve had it in the past. According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 3.8 percent of ...

Groups should also explore addiction and recovery process in general, and the effects of drug abuse on society, family, friends, work, school, etc. Each group will also be responsible for role ...

Adults with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to misuse prescription drugs as adults without disabilities, according to West Virginia University research.

The negative effects of alcohol abuse are well known. According to the National Institutes of Health, alcohol is the most common drug used among adults in the United States, despite ...

The agency recently conducted its first human ... effects over two days. The new clinical trial on abuse potential will build on its findings. Verrico, who has spent decades studying drugs that ...

The neurochemical and behavioral evidence showed that acupuncture's role in suppressing the reinforcing effects of abused drugs takes place by modulating mesolimbic dopamine neurons. Also ...

For the average person, living at high altitude—where oxygen is sparser than at sea level—can have health benefits ... have developed a drug that mimics the effects of breathing low oxygen.