According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the United States government will spend over $12 billion on its national drug control program in 2005. Although a significant proportion of ...

As I turn the corner onto my school’s open-air hallways, a soft breeze rustles past, carrying a sweet, foreign fragrance. I round the corner to search for the source, but I tilt my head in confusion — ...

Adolescent drug fatalities, especially involving fentanyl, increased slower in 2023, with a slight decline in overall fatalities. Fentanyl-related deaths in adolescents rose from 32% in 2018 to 76% in ...

Dr. Walling’s career as a psychologist has been a singular devotion to the creation of the Valley’s first-ever successful outpatient counseling program for substance use in teenagers. Dr. Walling’s ...

In consideration of recent US substance use treatment policy changes and unprecedented levels of adolescent opioid-related deaths, we examined the most recent national data (2022–23 National Survey on ...

A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New ...

Ty Schepis receives funding from the the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the US Food and Drug Administration. Support was also provided by the Translational Health Research Center at Texas State ...

CLEVELAND, Texas – The number of adolescent overdoses involving fentanyl has been on the rise for over a decade causing some school districts to stock up on the opioid reversal drug Narcan.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sofya Hawrylyshyn has been sober since March — a milestone the 19-year-old attributes to Denver Health’s adolescent substance abuse treatment program, which ...

ASAP, the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program, has proven itself Arizona's finest outpatient treatment program for teen substance abuse ages 12-18 since 1991. In 2021 ASAP proudly celebrated its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drug-induced deaths are another reason to frequently check in on your adolescent’s mental health. DigitalVision/Getty Images Drug ...