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As of May 2016, 25 states plus the District of Columbia allow the medicinal use of marijuana by patients suffering from certain debilitating medica...

Opioid abuse could be costing U.S. employers up to $8 billion annually, according to a report by the benefits firm Castlight Health. Employees who ...

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Houston are seeing an increasing amount of a type of high-potency marijuana known as "shatter." Som...

Fatal overdoses from benzodiazepines—sedatives sold under brand names such as Xanax, Valium, and Ativan—are on the rise, a new study finds. Ov...

President Obama is asking for more than $1 billion in new funding to address the opioid epidemic, USA Today reports. The funding would expand acces...

Workers in states that have legalized marijuana should think twice before smoking the drug. A new survey from the Society for Human Resource Manage...

The prevalence of employed adults with high levels of lead in their blood has fallen since the mid-1990s, according to a new NIOSH report. NIOSH an...

Adults ages 50 and older are the largest group seeking treatment for addiction to opioid painkillers and heroin in New York City, according to a ne...

The popularity of the "Dark Web" for purchasing illegal drugs is especially worrisome because it is increasing the availability and acceptability o...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will spend $20 million in 16 states to reduce opioid overdoses, UPI reports. Opioid overdoses ...