Everyone knows alcohol and driving don’t mix, but what about drugs and driving? Few people know that it is illegal to drive under the influence [...]

In June of 2014, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control reported that excessive drinking accounted for 1 in 10 preventable deaths of working-age Americans from 2006 [...]

The important role of exercise in helping to maintain optimal physical health is well known. Like the popular auto insurance commercial points out, “Everybody knows [...]

A definitive, comprehensive review of the current state of scientific knowledge on marijuana written by the nation’s leading drug scientists was recently published by the [...]

Disease (excluding infectious disease) is often based on genetics, inherited traits passed down from generation to generation through DNA, and addiction is no exception. The [...]

The first article in this series introduced Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). In this second part of this series, we will discuss [...]

Often overlooked in discussions of drug policy today is the nature of the drug problem. The global drug problem can be traced to the innate [...]

Now is the right time to upgrade the nation’s dysfunctional way of treating substance use disorders. This urgency is driven by three factors: The epidemic [...]

A proposal to require physicians licensed in California to undergo random drug and alcohol tests, Proposition 46, may be on the ballot as part of a larger [...]