What the Research Found A new study has shed important light on how cannabis and tobacco co use affects young people already at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-P). Published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, this is the first investigation of its kind. The findings carry real implications for adolescent mental health. Researchers...
Doctors and researchers are raising fresh concerns after new data revealed a sharp and sustained rise in alcohol use in cancer patients requiring unplanned hospital care across the United States. The findings, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, paint a troubling picture of how harmful drinking intersects with some of...
Kenneth Iwamasa gave fatal doses of ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry. For that, a federal judge has sentenced him to 41 months in prison. A Los Angeles court handed down the ruling on Tuesday. It closed the final chapter of a criminal case. The case laid bare what addiction can look like when those...
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Houston police carried out a nightclub raid on the East Freeway after months of complaints from local residents. Officers executed a search warrant at Latxica and seized narcotics, illegal alcohol and unlicensed tobacco products, detaining multiple people including those believed to be management. The Houston nightclub raid targeted...
Native American Overdose Deaths Remain High as US Figures Fall For the first time in a quarter century, deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide have fallen across the United States. Native American overdose deaths, however, tell a very different story. The overall decline is real and worth acknowledging. But for Native communities, the numbers remain...
Youth vaping trends in the UK have shifted dramatically in the past year. New data confirms a sharp fall in disposable vape use among children and teenagers, offering a significant public health win. That victory arrives as the broader cost of smoking to England reaches an estimated £44.8 billion a year. The ban on single-use...
Introduction In May 2026, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) marked thirty years of its Drug Trends program with a quiet announcement and a new bulletin series. NDARC framed the launch as a milestone: three decades of monitoring Australia’s drug markets, a commitment to drawing together multiple data sources, and a new series...
Trauma and addiction recovery rarely follows a straight line. For many people, the path begins not with a deliberate choice but with crisis. Substances become the only available buffer against unbearable pain. A war correspondent’s account of addiction following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami offers a rare window into this process. It shows how catastrophic...
A Drug Market Growing in the Shadows Ketamine has long occupied an unusual position in medicine. Developed in the 1960s as a safer anaesthetic alternative to phencyclidine (PCP), it earned a place on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of essential medicines thanks to its reliability, affordability and effectiveness in settings where conventional anaesthesia is...
For the first time in the recorded history of the US overdose epidemic, death rates have declined across all four defined waves of the crisis. A study published in June 2026 in the journal Addiction, led by researchers at the University of California San Diego, found that the national overdose death rate fell by 24.4%...