The Rising Tide of Meth Addiction
Methamphetamine has been available for decades, but between 1993 and 2003, the number of people seeking drug addiction treatment for crystal meth addiction quadrupled. What’s going on?
To start with, crystal meth can be readily made using commonly available materials including cough medications. This means that crystal meth addicts — who once [...]

Eating is controlled by many factors, including appetite, food availability, family, peer, and cultural practices, and attempts at voluntary control. Dieting to a body weight leaner than needed for health is highly promoted by current fashion trends, sales campaigns for special foods, and in some activities and professions. Eating disorders involve serious disturbances in eating [...]

Whether you smoke or not, you have probably heard that almost 90% of all lung cancer deaths are caused by cigarette smoking.
But, if you are a smoker, did you know that smoking one pack per day will shorten your lifespan by seven years? More Americans die from smoking-related diseases than from car accidents, suicide, AIDS, [...]

Detroit Deaths from Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Overdoses Could Be Reduced by Medical Treatment
Tuesday October 3, 7:30 am ET
Physician training sessions will increase patient access to medical office-based treatment for opiate addiction
DETROIT, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ — A recent string of opiate overdoses and deaths in Detroit and elsewhere in Wayne County highlights the devastation of a dangerous [...]