The controversial war on drugs not only costs a lot, it has done almost nothing to curb the drug addiction rate since 1970, according to this stunning chart by /questions-on-the-1315-project-chart ...

By deepening our understanding of how drugs act at the genetic, molecular, physiological, and brain-circuit levels, we can develop more targeted and effective treatments for addiction and other ...

Over time these words – "alcohol", "cocaine" and others, including "drugs" and" intoxicated" – became more closely associated with substance use, abuse and addiction in American popular culture.

Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S., surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, guns and HIV infection. As a former ...

So, yes: There is a huge problem with the chart, in that 40 years of federal drug control spending does not add up to $1.5 trillion (though minus the "$1.5 trillion" in the middle of the image ...

The drug’s use was also on the rise in places like New York, where, in the following year, at least 95% of those admitted to drug addiction treatment reported using it.

The chart below via the Transform Drug Policy Foundation shows Portugal had a precipitous fall in overdoses after decriminalizing, and overdose rates remained low in the years after it bottomed ...

Stakeholders chart ways to tackle drug addiction in Kwara. 55m. I T has been advised that drugs may promise a shortcut to paradise, but they inevitably lead takers down a destructive highway.

So far, drugs that target the nicotinic receptors that contain these addiction-related subunits have not been developed. But this research suggests a promising path forward.

The language of addiction is always evolving. Maybe we need an addictionary. For example, when the word "alcohol" was written or spoken in early 19th-century America. it was often used in the chemical ...