Drug Use

A new pill could be the first to help the more than 14 million people in the U.S. who struggle to control their marijuana use

A huge Danish study shows that up to 30 percent of psychosis diagnoses in young men could have been prevented if these individuals hadn’t used marijuana heavily

Medication treatment for heroin addiction has come a long way since its pioneer died. But what would she think of the field today?

Requiring a prescription for all forms of naloxone holds the overdose-reversing medication hostage, kept from millions of Americans who should carry it in their purses and back pockets

In the 1970s Marie Nyswander thought that she had finally found a long-term treatment for heroin addiction, but not everyone agreed—including some of the people she was trying to help

In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist”

A recent Food and Drug Administration decision that makes naloxone available without a prescription may increase the drug’s accessibility. But cost could be a barrier

A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help—about something else entirely

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned about the dangers of xylazine, but Narcan (naloxone) can still save people’s life during an overdose

In the first episode of Season Five of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we meet a young doctor who, in 1946, was posted to Kentucky’s Narcotic Farm

Antibiotics won’t work on the virus that causes COVID, but in places like India, their overuse threatens to nullify their effects on other equally deadly pathogens

The candy-colored drugs are the latest Halloween scare, but history suggests such fears are overblown