Drug and alcohol testing have become common practice in a variety of settings, including child custody evaluations. Parents ...

Atorvastatin is a prescription drug used for lowering cholesterol and triglyceride levels and reducing certain heart-related ...

The weight-loss drugs are linked with reduced rates of excess drinking and opioid overdoses, suggesting they may tamp down ...

Some countries develop illegal drug industries, and others do not. Discerning the distinguishing characteristics—social, economic, and political—of countries with these industries forms the subject of ...

The pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis that followed have fuelled a huge surge in the number of employees battling with alcohol and drug dependencies. Kavitha Sivasubramaniam looks at how ...

"The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine," a new book by Matthew C. Ehrlich, a professor emeritus of journalism at the U. of I., examines the controversial drug's ...

Ketamine doesn't induce the same type of hangover that alcohol and other drugs do. This makes it appealing to those who need to be at work the day after using it. Likewise, it is appealing to ...

Sometimes, trying to help a family member who is addicted to alcohol or drugs actually winds up doing the opposite. If someone who means the world to you – such as your child, partner ...

Alcohol can cause weight gain and have a negative impact on the body. Some people may see an immediate effect of bloating from alcohol. Long-term effects of alcohol include weight gain from its high ...

Harry Sumnall receives funding from public grant awarding bodies for alcohol and other drugs research, and fees from (international) not-for-profit organisations and government departments for ...

“Those guys… they introduced cocaine to my artists. So once they got on cocaine, once they got on drugs, once they got on alcohol, then that’s when the weird stuff happened. I think that’s ...

A team has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action. In 2022, nearly 619,000 global deaths due to malaria were caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent ...