The Secretary of Health and Human services, now 72, made a flippant admission last week that he isn’t afraid of germs because he “used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats,” but his use of illegal ...

A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, finds that people experiencing more economic disadvantages are more likely to smoke cigarettes, have higher levels of tobacco addiction, and find it ...

Is marijuana addicting? A caller to my talk show today talked about how his son was addicted to smoking pot and that he doesn’t seem to have the ability to quit. When I smoked pot in the past, I never ...

Experts view a shift from injecting fentanyl to smoking it as a promising development that could cut overdose deaths and reduce needle-related harms.

Dr. Smita Das often hears the same myth: You can’t get hooked on pot. And the misconception has become more widespread as a growing number of states legalize marijuana. Around half now allow ...

OH, which is also found in small amounts in kratom, are unregulated in most states and causing concern about a "third wave" of the opioid epidemic ...

Some experts recommend smoking rather than injecting fentanyl to avoid needle-related diseases. But, smoking fentanyl is dangerous and can lead to second and third-hand exposures.

NORAH Mahony started smoking at 11 to fit in at school — and spent decades quitting, relapsing and starting again. Now, the ...

Even those of us who know all too well what addiction looks like find it hard to resist the lure of Facebook and other ...

A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, published by Oxford University Press, finds that people experiencing more economic disadvantages are more likely to smoke cigarettes, have higher levels ...