Getting involved in after-school sports can be positive, but it comes with risks too.
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When after-school clubs aren’t properly monitored, they can become risky spaces.
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Scientists are beginning to understand why certain drugs and musical genres are natural partners.
Young Australians are drinking less and less. But why?
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While young people are drinking less alcohol, older Australians are binge drinking more often – what’s going on?
A still from the 1936 propaganda film ‘Reefer Madness.’
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Research from the last few decades suggest marijuana helps more than it harms. But Jeff Sessions’ proposed crackdown would take us back nearly a century.
Patients in 29 states can legally use medical marijuana to treat their symptoms.
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Patients in 29 states rely on medical marijuana to treat pain, nausea, seizures and other ailments. But all that could change.
Schoolies and New Year’s Eve see high visitor numbers in tourist spots like Byron Bay.
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So-called ‘party’ towns like Byron Bay attract huge numbers of visitors for schoolies weeks and New Year’s Eve – but sometimes at high cost to the young people who live there.
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Many more women probably use drugs than official figures suggest. And they certainly face more harms.
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The Saint Regis Mohawk tribe has struck a multimillion-dollar deal with Allergan. But the deal may do more harm than good.
Now purer and more accessible.
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Budget cuts have consequences.
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Maybe it’s time the government listened to the advice offered by its Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Watch where you take it.
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A British woman has been arrested for transporting the prescription painkiller into Egypt and could even face the death penalty.
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Medication usage has gone through the roof in the last decade.
Oxycodone-acetaminophen pills.
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Drug addiction isn’t about bad habits, fear of withdrawal or a selfish search for pleasure. It’s about the brain.
Discarded used hypodermic needles along the Merrimack River in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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HIV, STIs and other dangerous infections are feeding off of the opioid epidemic, creating an even more complicated threat to public health.
Bad night’s sleep? Blame your genes.
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Whether you’re a night owl or a morning lark, circadian rhythms control just about every aspect of your health.
People without ID, like Steven Kemp, are sometimes turned away from the country’s already threadbare system of drug treatment centers.
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President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
Baby boomers who drink and take drugs risk a range of physical and mental problems that younger substance users don’t necessarily face.
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More Australians over 50 are drinking and taking drugs than ever before. Here’s why that can be a problem.
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A Victorian athlete’s use of ‘performance-enhancing’ coca was met with interested approval rather than anger of the kind directed at Justin Gatlin.
Fentanyl: increasingly lethal.
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Synthetic opiates are a growing problem.
Has D.A.R.E. moved beyond the “just say no” days of the ‘80’s and '90’s?
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Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that the current program is nothing like the ineffective D.A.R.E. of the ‘80’s and '90’s.