Three former World Health Organization directors say the goal of reaching a global smoking rate below 5 percent by 2040 is achievable—if safer nicotine products are fully embraced. Their words are a ...

The latest overdose mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the rate of drug deaths in the United States is still decreasing, as it has continuously for the past ...

Data show big, positive shifts on regulated access and the need for research—but not on decriminalization—among US voters.

It most likely is an increase in mental flexibility and learning, combined with a perspective-shifting subjective experience.

The revised rule comes amid the trucking industry's years-long push for oral fluid testing as an alternative to urine testing ...

On May 5, the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) did something it has never done before: It authorized fruit-flavored ...

"It's brought a calming effect to the [incarcerated] population," said a deputy warden in a new report from Worth Rises.

Populations with HIV smoke at very high rates; in some, lung cancer is the leading cause of death. It's a need and an ...

Shaun Shelly on the formation of the South African Network of People Who Use Drugs, and its future in a rapidly changing ...

Though the United States has never imposed the death penalty for drug distribution, in some cases it has the legal authority ...