Addiction

Previous research has shown that females report more intense highs from cocaine use than do males, and that the former are more likely to become addicted to the drug, given the presence of the female hormone estradiol. However, little is...

Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana as the United States drug of choice. Around 91.8 million Americans aged 18 and above used prescription painkillers in 2014, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...

Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...