How a former addict uses the internet to save drug users’ lives

While the industry publicly admits tobacco causes cancer, they’re still relying on an old-fashioned playbook in the courtroom to hide such a link in individual cases.

Not much surprises a man who's put spies and kidnappers and murderers behind bars. But there one American problem that took DEA Chief Chuck Rosenberg's breath away: drug overdose.

From Far East karaoke bars to an unlikely English city - the story of how a worrying new drug trade is made in China.

Heroin use is reaching into new communities as people hooked on prescription painkillers transition to cheaper illegal drugs.

Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions. Then he snorted his way to ruin.

A new pair of brain-imaging studies suggest that researchers may be able to predict how likely young adults are to develop problem drinking or risky sexual behavior in response to stress.

Stepping into the health debate around electronic cigarettes is a messy and frustrating exercise. Depending on whom you ask, these devices are either the best technological solution to the smoking pandemic or the biggest looming threat to public health. So to sort through the research and figure out whether e-cigarettes are actually safe, I read through more than 60 studies, articles, and reviews, and interviewed nine researchers and health experts about their work.

It’s stronger than heroin and more potent than OxyContin. It’s also cheap, ubiquitous, and incredibly deadly. Inside the rise of fentanyl.

By Charlie Fox.

Hawaii will become the first state in the country to outlaw smoking for anyone under 21 next year after Gov. David Ige signed a bill raising the smoking age from 18 to 21 Friday. The measure bans the sale or use of cigarettes and electronic smoking devices for anyone under age 21. "Taking this step forward to prohibit anyone under the age of 21 of smoking, purchasing, possessing, is another step to reduce the impact that smoking...

A team of scientists are giving hallucinogens to smoking addicts to help them cut the habit. Tim Maughan visited the lab where this surprising research is emerging.

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were Kraft and Nabisco, General Mills and Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Mars. Rivals any other day, the C.E.O.’s and company presidents had come together for a rare, private meeting. On the agenda was one item...

When the e-cigarette first appeared, Big Tobacco dismissed it as a fad. Now they hope to find the safer cigarette themselves.

Portugal decriminalised the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it — Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of these drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. The drugs were still illegal, of course. But now getting caught with them meant a small fine and maybe a referral to a treatment program — not jail time and a criminal record.

Scientists have established that London has the highest concentration of cocaine in sewage of anywhere surveyed in Europe.

North Korea is making a concerted effort to reduce the regime’s high cigarette-smoking rate by banning the act in public places as well as outlawing the sale of foreign cigarettes. “We have also prohibited people from using electronic cigarettes and smokeless cigarettes,” Choi Hyun-sook, a high-ranking official at the state-controlled health ministry, told the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Saturday.

He doesn't worry about his kids using drugs -- he worries about the cops killing them for it.