Tag: substance abuse

A recent study offered a glimpse into the impacts that age and gender have on the mental health of people struggling with drug addiction. Researchers...

Infoveillance, the process of social listening in order to identify and evaluate what is said about an individual, product, brand or company through the...

Certain behavioral traits have long been associated with a risk for drug abuse, but new research published in the journal Behavioral Sciences by researchers...

People who voluntarily seek addiction treatment are less likely to exhibit signs of mental distress six months after their course of treatment when compared...

Drug use is more of a motivating factor for women to commit burglary than it is for men, according to a new study published...

A 2016 pilot study tested the feasibility, usability and outcomes of a family-based substance use prevention program for foster families. “There’s a lot of evidence...

Between 5 and 10 percent of eighth-graders, 10th-graders and 12th-graders have tried inhalants in their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH)...

  Sexual minority groups have a higher risk of abusing substances than the sexual majority population, according to a new report from the Substance Abuse...

As neurological science and addiction research has developed, the understanding of substance misuse has shifted from the popular belief that addiction is a...

Sleep-deprived children and teenagers are more likely to use drugs and alcohol, according to a new study by the Department of Psychiatry at the...