Cannabis poisoning children is no longer a rare event in New York State. A new report from the New York State Department of Health has found something startling. Emergency department visits linked to cannabis exposure among children aged 0 to 4 have climbed so sharply that cannabis now rivals, and in recent years has overtaken,...
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...
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...
Ask someone why they can’t put their phone down and they’ll probably laugh it off. Ask them why they can’t cut back on drinking, and the conversation gets heavier fast. Both answers start in the same place: a reward circuit in the brain that doesn’t much care whether the trigger is a text message or...
Prevention experts have shared reflections that carry real weight for anyone involved in college prevention today. Indeed, their insights come from many years of combined experience. They touch on relationships, resources, culture and community. Overall, the guidance offers a practical map for people supporting healthier student populations. Universities everywhere continue to invest in college prevention...
Every year, another cohort of teenagers reaches the age where cannabis becomes available to them: through a dealer, a friend, or increasingly, a legal dispensary. Most try it once or twice and move on. A smaller group use it regularly through adolescence. Experts have argued for decades over what that regular use does to a...
A habit that millions of people consider harmless could be quietly raising the odds of a heart attack. A major new review, published in The American Journal of Medicine, has pulled together years of research on cannabis use and heart attack risk, and the picture it paints is far from reassuring, especially for younger adults...
Tobacco Industry Job Cuts Explained British American Tobacco has confirmed plans to cut around 9,000 jobs worldwide. In fact, the move marks one of the most significant rounds of tobacco industry job cuts in recent years. The company is doubling down on alternative nicotine products instead of traditional cigarettes. The maker of Lucky Strike and...
America’s experiment with liberal cannabis laws has produced a quiet public‑health crisis for children, with poison centres now fielding thousands of calls a year about kids who have eaten or otherwise been exposed to THC products that were never meant for them. A surge no one planned for The Bertino et al. study; Changes in...
Few legal proceedings in American drug policy have opened quite like this one. Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) subpoenaed a pharmacologist from within the Drug Enforcement Administration itself to testify against rescheduling. The marijuana rescheduling hearing opened on Monday, 29 June 2026, in Arlington, Virginia. SAM is one of only seven designated parties with standing...