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A study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds the United States has more than double the overdose-related deaths of at least 12 comparable countries. Nations profiled in the report, conducted by researchers from the National Cancer […]

With the holidays just around the corner you may be wondering how you can stay sober with parties, dinners, and social gatherings. Whether you are newly sober or 5 years into your recovery, it can be difficult to gear up

American Substance Abuse Professionals, with their friends and family, came out to support Paul’s Place at their annual Huff & Puff 5K &1M. Paul’s Place is a catalyst and leader for change, and their mission is to improve the quality

New York City employers are squarely blaming a raging drug epidemic for much of the trouble they have filling jobs in one of the tightest labor markets in a generation.More local prospective workers are testing positive for substance abuse, or

The Zheng drug trafficking organization was hardly clandestine. The Shanghai-based network sold synthetic narcotics, including deadly fentanyl, on websites posted in 35 languages, from Arabic and English to Icelandic and Uzbek. The Chinese syndicate bragged that its laboratory could “synthesize

While cases of customers who suffer drug-related overdoses in private businesses are common, food service industry workers endure an increasing number of issues associated with substance abuse. For example, a New Jersey chef and restaurant owner had struggled with substance

As mandated by its drug and alcohol regulation, FTA will increase the minimum rate of random drug testing from 25 percent to 50 percent of covered employees for employers subject to FTA’s drug and alcohol regulation, effective January 1, 2019.

Jimmy Sullivan prepared for his job as a bricklayer the same way every morning for years: injecting a shot of heroin before leaving his car. The first time he overdosed on the job, in 2013 at a Virginia construction site,

After noticing more and more patients in her practice struggling with prescription drug addiction, psychiatrist Anna Lembke, MD, investigated the problem of rampant overprescribing in the US medical community and the hidden forces encouraging it. Her resulting 2016 release, Drug Dealer, MD: How

A growing body of research suggests that a brain system observed by scientists for only the past two decades could end up serving as a crucial target for long-awaited medication therapies to treat cocaine dependence. The latest study, currently in