Young adults aged 18 to 25 saw similarly favorable trends. Still, many young people face mental health challenges. Nearly 20% ...

About 100 people — mostly local drug addicts — gathered at a pagoda in Phnom Penh in mid-February. A few drug users had brought their families for support, and they sat together on woven mats before a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana remains at record lows, according to national survey results released Wednesday. They consume a lot of energy drinks, though. And there are ...

Athletes, actors, politicians, and others often develop substance abuse disorders and some die from drug-related deaths. At the same time, their life history, drug use, and risk-taking shows the rest ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and ...

A dangerous substance dubbed "gas station heroin" continues to alarm medical professionals, with more states making moves to restrict or ban tianeptine. Fourteen states have officially classified the ...

When people jokingly say they have a “drug of choice,” they’re implying a particular substance matches their emotional and psychological needs. They don’t realize they’re right: There are drugs of ...

Authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been warning the public about worrying cases of heroin overdoses after people thought they had taken cocaine or methamphetamine. We know the issue is ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

FILE - Students walk the halls at a high school in Philadelphia on Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) (Matt Slocum, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All ...