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It's been a decade since the financial crisis drove up the unemployment rate in the U.S. and forced people in the prime of their careers to give up looking for work.

Even today, as employers add jobs at a furious pace, the workforce...

The rapid adoption of e-cigarettes has been driven, at least in part, by a huge jump in the potency of e-liquids.

CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG teenagers is on the wane. While data show smoking among teenagers has dropped over the past few years...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is now accepting applications for $930 million in State Opioid Response Grants. SAMHSA will...

Los resultados de un estudio en el que han participado 1.276 personas de 80 países diferentes, todas ellas residentes en España o en países hispanohablantes, apuntan a que más de la mitad de los menores de 18 años experimentan problemas...

Sideal is a self-help app available in Spanish for people experiencing alcohol dependance. The app offers advice on reducing consumption and abstinence.

The app can be used to set and track goals that someone has set for themselves or one...

Hanover Hospital and its affiliated healthcare clinics has become a model for how a healthcare system that is fully engaged in embracing evidence-based treatment of opioid use disorders can make significant change.

A little more than a...

Likewise cancer, addiction is a complex disease that requires being addressed by an integral, balanced and multidisciplinary approach. Currently, within the healthcare systems, there are available treatment options for cancer that are...

An opioid crisis is spreading throughout Africa. This comprehensive article traces consumption of tramadol across the continent, focusing on the scenario in various African countries in addition to the complexities of deciding on how to...

A webinar on opioid use disorder by Dr. Dennis McCarty is now available through the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) website. 

The hour long webinar took place in April 2018 and discusses treatment and prevention. The webinar...

Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation has allowed researchers to reduce how "excited" the brains of chronic cocaine and alcohol users become in response to drug cues.

Drug addiction is a chronic disease affecting 5.4 percent of the...

This article details the opioid addiction crisis in Jos, Nigeria.

National Prevention week led by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) will take place from 13-19th May 2018.

Each day focus will fall on a different topic - starting off with the theme of "Promotion of Mental Health...

Scotland has become the first country in the world to enforce a minimum price per unit of alcohol. As of 1 May 2018 all alcohol must cost no less than 0.5GPD or 50 pence. 

The move is the result of a long process of research and...

*Updated* Our commentary on the first trial to rigorously test high-dose baclofen to treat dependent drinking has been updated with the release on 24 April 2018 of an opinion on the balance between safety and benefits from a scientific...