A federal appeals court in the United States has cleared the way for more than 3,000 lawsuits accusing Meta, Google, ByteDance’s TikTok and Snapchat of designing their platforms to fuel social media addiction among young users. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, rejected an attempt by the technology companies to...
Fewer Scottish teenagers are picking up a vape. New survey data published by the Scottish Government shows that teen vaping in Scotland has fallen for a second consecutive year. Even so, the products remain remarkably easy for young people to find. The figures come from the 2026 ASH Smokefree GB Youth Survey. YouGov runs the...
Friday 21 August marks National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day in the United States. Each year, the date exists to confront one of the deadliest public health threats facing young people today. The Drug Enforcement Administration says fentanyl overdose prevention has become an urgent national priority. This synthetic opioid now kills more Americans under 50...
Cannabis use in America isn’t just growing. It’s getting stronger, sneakier, and more addictive, and the newest federal numbers show exactly how much. The 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (SAMHSA) is out, and marijuana is the story. Here’s what’s actually in the data. The Numbers Are Bigger Than Ever Who’s Actually Driving...
There is a quiet assumption that addiction recovery looks the same on day one as it does ten years later. Ask anyone who has actually run a treatment programme and they will tell you that is simply not true. According to Brian Coon, a counsellor who spent his first nineteen years immersed in both a...
Paramedics wheeled Jean Descamps into Providence Milwaukie Hospital on a cold December night in 2023. He was barely conscious and covered in his own waste. Hours later, staff wanted him gone. One worker on the ward told police it was not really a medical problem. He called the 26 year old a malingerer. Descamps died...
Runners have long chased something beyond a personal best. Ask any regular jogger about that rush of calm or euphoria mid run. Most will know exactly what you mean. Scientists call it a runner’s high, and new research is finally explaining where it comes from. For decades, the runner’s high was pinned entirely on endorphins,...
Finding a vape in your child’s bag used to mean one conversation. Nicotine, maybe. Cannabis, possibly. These days, that conversation is a lot more complicated, because a growing number of the vapes turning up in schoolbags and bedrooms across the UK aren’t cannabis at all. They’re spice vapes, and most of the young people using...
A new declaration from drug prevention advocates seeks to restore Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to its rightful place in global drug policy. In 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. They left behind 86,000 children. One in every 840 kids in the United States was...
Millions of people around the world enjoy a drink, but new research suggests the brain keeps a running tally long after the glass is empty. The encouraging part is that brain recovery from alcohol is genuinely possible, and for many people it begins sooner than expected. The 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...