A large study from the University of Colorado found heavy cannabis use is linked to reduced brain activity. Lead researcher Joshua Gowin and neurosurgeon Paul Saphier discuss the impact on health.

New Jersey regulators have declined to award another offshore wind power project in the face of a federal permitting freeze.

Today's parents are saying yes to drugs. Just don't tell their kids.

A new study from the University of Chicago Medicine reveals that people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and depression experience high levels of stimulation and pleasure when intoxicated, similar to ...

Legendary Toto guitarist Steve Lukather is looking back on how cocaine took hold of the Los Angeles rock music scene in the ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Jamie Boland, 38, from Manchester, went from being a 'successful business owner to a virtual recluse' after becoming addicted ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

Jamie Boland died in June last year aged 38 after battling ketamine addiction and now his parents have called for the drug to ...

A predatory Sheffield crime gang took over the flat of a vulnerable man with paranoid schizophrenia, forcing him to remain ...

Dr Siyab Panhwar, a cardiologist at NYU Langone in New York City, says there are three drugs that he would never touch knowing how they could wreck the body.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Journavx for short-term pain that often ...