Tag: drugs

New research explores the neural hijacking that cocaine addiction causes in the brain.

You won't like what you hear.

Toxic plants used as part of burial ceremonies induced delirium and hallucinations.

Powerful intoxicants could have helped foster alliances and solidify authority.

A class of drugs that many pin their hopes on, but is still poorly understood.

Whether you're a college student hoping to improve your grades, a professional wanting to achieve more at work, or an ...

The aircraft was being used for a drug trafficking network.

At home in both weekend raves and the psychiatric ward, MDMA is not your typical street drug.

So far, however, this shift is less damaging overall than the alcohol abuse of old, according to the authors.

Fans of Limitless, prepare to be disappointed.

All life likes to party.

By the end of the decade, most new drugs could be discovered by AIs.

Malaria could be eradicated within a generation, a landmark report says.

Americans' spending on drugs rivals spending on alcohol.

Drug overdosing is still a huge healthcare problem in the US -- but at least there now seems to be ...

Alcohol is a depressant that can cause all sorts of health issues when combined with drugs, illegal or not.

A different strategy for tackling drug fatalities at festivals.

The answer depends on whom you ask.

With great empathy comes great stress as well!

These pose "a serious public health risk." Most are sexual enhancement, weight loss, and bodybuilding supplements.

Getting high frequently may make it difficult to imagine a personal future.

One-third of American adults take at least one drug with depression as a side effect.

Science is making great progress in eradicating the infection that kills 1.7 million annually.

The purpose is to identify how everyday consciousness works.

A look at how antiquated views and obsolete policies impact patients and physicians alike.

It just doesn't work.

Opiates kill pain -- but they also kill people.

The drugs were manufactured to treat different conditions but they also seem to block an important pathway linked to brain ...

Let's face it: the war on drugs has failed.

People frequently overindulge, sometimes to the point of developing sugar addictions. There has been a lot of interest in the ...

A new report questions the legitimacy of today's "War on Drugs," seeing as the five-decade long process has failed to ...

How long marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and other drugs stay in your urine, hair or blood.

British researchers investigated the long term effects of LSD. It's well documented that LSD may induce a psychosis, and participants ...

Exercise is good for you, we all know that. Even better with drugs.

A dubious pharmaceutical startup recently bought the rights to a drug that treats a parasitic infection, then raised the price ...

A lesser known side effect of a famous blue pill.

When drugs are imported into the United States, the people responsible aren't just damaging human lives; they may also be ...

Photo: prevention.com There's no secret prescriptions drugs have taken off in the past few decades, amounting to a multi-billion dollar ...

Photo: ecolutionist.com A report released to the public by the  USDA Inspector General  states that numerous beef samples were found to contain penicillin, ...

Henry Ford's Model T automobile changed not only the way the average American traveled (the first trully affordable vehicle for ...

After going to a Boston club a few years ago, Mike Abramson, now a Worcester Polytechnic Institute grad, had a ...

Researchers at  Parabon NanoLabs have developed an unique tool that allows scientists to use an intuitive drag-and-drop computer interface, much like in ...

According to a recently released study authored by American physicians, sleeping pills are  linked to a more-than fourfold risk of premature ...

A new study which capitalized on an extensive ongoing survey, shows that children with high IQs, especially girls, are more ...

Meditation can have pain reliefing effects much greater than even morphine, one of the strongest drugs, according to a recent ...

Researchers have found that the mystical experiences obtained by volunteers under the psychoactive substance found in hallucinogenic mushrooms has lead ...

It's ignorance like this that never sees to baffle me. Steve Pop is an overnight notorious psychotherapist who, like most ...

Nobody wants to grow old, but at least at this point in our evolution, it's unavoidable. Growing old however, is ...

The sun begins to ooze off outside of Birmingham, England. It's tea time. A woman stands alone in her house, ...

Turns out, heroin was much easier to get a few decades ago.