Australian prisons to be supplied sterile needles

According to the Association for Prevention and Harm Reduction Programs Australia (Anex), bans on prisoners possessing drugs and syringes have failed to stop th...

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Study shows longtime pot smoking may increase risk of psychosis

Australian research suggests that smoking cannabis predisposes people to psychosis. The study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry involved 3,800 peo...

Mar 13, 2010 3:15AM

U.S. backs vaccines for drug, nicotine addiction

Julie Steenhuysen

Hooked on cocaine or cigarettes? The U.S. government wants drug companies to make a vaccine for that.

Oct 21, 2009 10:51PM

Vaccine raises hope for cocaine addiction therapy

Julie Steenhuysen

A vaccine helped block the high felt by cocaine users in 38 percent of people who took it, U.S. researchers said on Monday, offering promise of a new approach t...

Oct 07, 2009 3:35AM

Treating heroin addiction with heroin seems viable

Gene Emery

Injections of the active ingredient of heroin work far better than oral methadone for keeping addicts in treatment, away from illegal drugs and out of trouble, ...

Aug 21, 2009 1:36AM