Germany recorded 2,150 drug related deaths in 2025. This is a rise on the previous year and the second highest total on record. Federal Drug Commissioner Hendrik Streeck released the figures at the Patrida opioid clinic in Berlin. He said the victims are getting younger. Streeck called the announcement something of an annual ritual. Yet...
New government data has confirmed what many working in addiction recovery have long suspected. Drug and alcohol treatment reoffending outcomes improve sharply once someone accesses structured support. In the largest linkage study of its kind, England’s Office for Health Improvement and Disparities matched over a million treatment records against police data. People who completed or...
More than a million Americans have died from drug overdoses since the turn of the century. Synthetic opioids keep claiming lives across the country. Yet one chapter of war on drugs history rarely enters the conversation. It may hold real answers for tackling the modern opioid crisis. A War on Drugs History Nobody Expected Fifty...
Opioid use disorder is a serious medical condition, and buprenorphine is one of the most effective treatments available for it. Yet a new study out of Philadelphia reveals that even where this medication exists and clinicians want to prescribe it, layers of policy and payment red tape often stand in the way. Understanding why matters...
A well-funded push to put cannabis on Idaho's November ballot has collapsed, and the reason is worth sitting with. Voters did not defeat it at the polls. It never reached them. A campaign that spent roughly $2.7 million could not clear the legal bar to qualify. A citizen effort on a different issue cleared that same bar the very same week.
Brain health isn’t something that just happens to you. It’s something you build over time, one choice at a time, through daily resilient mind habits that add up. In fact, most of these habits are simple, practical, and well within your reach. So here are the habits worth building into your routine. Step Away from...
Opioid overdose prevention has never been more urgent. In England and Wales, opioids and opiates were linked to 2,621 drug poisoning deaths in 2024, close to half of all drug poisoning deaths recorded that year, and part of the highest overall total since records began in 1993. Behind every one of those figures is a...
Reaching for a third episode without noticing the time slip away is common enough that most people shrug it off. Few would call it binge watching addiction, yet the pattern deserves that name. A recent WebMD feature on binge watching listed the physical toll of hours spent on the couch, sore eyes, disrupted sleep, a...
There is a version of the psychedelics story that everyone already knows. A veteran who stopped waking up screaming. A cancer patient who made peace with dying. A depressive who, after decades of grey, felt sunlight again. These stories are moving, they are frequently true, and Netflix, bestselling books, presidential press conferences, and a booming...
New findings from brain science and education research are changing how communities view school based drug education. Researchers no longer treat it as one isolated lesson. Instead, they place it within life course science, alongside growing research on youth resilience. Two recent studies show why this shift matters. For example, a large cohort study in...