PORTLAND, Oregon — In an alarming story this week, KGW news partner KOBI broke the news that Medford police are investigating allegations that a nurse at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center caused ...

Dr. Nora Volkow, who leads the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, would like the public to know things are getting better. Mostly. By Matt Richtel Historically speaking, it’s not a bad time to be the ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

An old drug has taken on new popularity — and it has doctors concerned. “We walk into the president's chambers (at the fraternity) … and there’s three dudes carrying, like, Butane tanks,” Hurley said.

According to DSM-5, dissociation refers to the “splitting off of clusters of mental contents from conscious awareness.” An everyday example is daydreaming. Or the experience of being so absorbed in a ...

Drug addiction and abuse is a serious issue across America. It is also a major issue in the Key City. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, over 20 million Americans were diagnosed with ...

Four days after Christmas 2020, Hannah Moore felt horror like no other when she awoke to find her 2-month-old daughter’s cold, lifeless body nestled next to her in bed, inches away from her other two ...

In the sweltering heat of Lagos, Seun’s story could be anyone’s in Nigeria’s rising tide of drug abuse. The 32-year-old began his experimentation with substances at a casual party on Eleko Beach, ...

A mental health expert and clinical psychologist with the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Dr Olanrewaju Sodeinde, has called for more collaborative efforts to stem the rising tide of drug ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called for a collective national effort in combating substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking, declaring that the fight must go beyond government initiatives to ...