From 2022 to 2023, there was a decrease in the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose death in the United States, according to a report published in the February Health E-Stats, a publication of the ...

Stakeholders in Kwara State have emphasised the urgent need for collective action to address cultism, drug abuse, and other social vices in the state.Speaking at the first annual convention of the ...

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction is treatable, but it’s not a simple process. Addiction is a chronic disease that can’t be stopped within days, and individuals will need ...

It can also range from mild to severe. Substance use disorder, formerly known as “drug abuse,” develops when substance use interferes with the ability to function day to day. Substance use ...

The Scottish government has admitted that children who were raped and attacked by a "monstrous" child sex abuse ring were "failed ... committed in a Glasgow drugs den. The case, which involved ...

Members of one of Scotland's largest paedophile gangs - who ran a "monstrous" child sex abuse ring in a Glasgow drugs den - have each been sentenced to an order for lifelong restriction.

All were convicted of gang-raping a child and abusing other children in a drug den in Glasgow where heroin and crack cocaine were used. Iain Owens, 46; Elaine Lannery, 40; Lesley Williams, 43; Paul ...

Three victims under the age of 13 were subjected to horrific sexual abuse and violence in a Glasgow drug den dubbed "the beastie house" over a seven-year period. Police said the children had ...

During a series of interviews in the months that followed, the young victims shone a light on the horrific abuse they were subjected to in a squalid Glasgow drug den which they knew as the ...

says no fewer than 14.3 million Nigerians are victims of drug abuse. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this at the inaugural ceremony of the agency’s youth programme ...

(Sept. 2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41392-024-01931-z. A collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, author of the popular graphics blog Compound Interest To see more of Brunning’s work, go to ...