Teen drug use is on the rise with opioids gaining popularity especially among girls ages 12 to 17, according to an alarming new study.

Substance use among adolescents, which declined precipitously ... Volkow, MD, director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), tells Parents. But in an unexpected development, that ...

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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has advised students of Government Girls’ Secondary ...

The National Commission on the Rights of Child(NCRC) conducted an orientation and awareness consultation of the Child ...

It's an age-old worry among many parents: Is my kid using drugs? Data shows why such concerns these days go beyond fretting over a teen potentially puffing on pot, with the rise of fentanyl ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Dutse, Abuja to resist any form of peer pressure to abuse ...

Teens and young adults with anxiety, ADHD, or sleep disorders were more likely to have a diagnosis of addiction to sedatives ...

Among a sample of 4,147 White and Black adolescents in 9th through 12th ... a relationship (National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, 2001; Furlong et al., ...

Highlighting statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Adedeji noted the severe mental and physical health risks posed by drug abuse, particularly among adolescents.

Read full article: Teens in hospital after gunfight ... are part of a broader push to stem the tide of drug abuse in Harris County, particularly among vulnerable young people.