Many of those who microdose psychedelics do so to feel less anxious or depressed, or enhance mental sharpness and boost ...

Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in ...

Evidence continues to mount suggesting that GLP-1 drugs may help people cut back on cigarettes, drinking and opioid use. As the medications — which include semaglutide and tirzepatide — have grown in ...

A new meta-analysis of over half a million people has found that spiritual practices like praying or meditating have a measurable impact. Spiritual practices, whether religious or not, lowered the ...

"Like father, like son? Can parenting styles break the intergenerational pattern of alcohol and drug use?" A group of Brazilian researchers analyzed data on the behavior of 4,280 adolescents and their ...

This year, Seattle officials are putting a stronger emphasis on services for people arrested for public drug use. That’s after drug possession arrests and charges climbed last year under the city’s ...

The conversation around drugs has long been framed by cost. Policymakers calculate the billions lost every year to productivity gaps, hospitalizations, law enforcement and incarceration. The U.S.

A California teenager used a chatbot over several months for drug-use guidance on ChatGPT, his mother said. Sam Nelson, 18, was preparing for college when he asked an AI chatbot how many grams of ...

Get arrested for open drug use in Seattle now, and here’s what happens: you get referred to a diversion program. That’s it. That’s the new directive, first reported by the activist group We Heart ...

More than two hours of Nick Reiner discussing his heavy drug use and difficult relationship with his parents have been collected in an episode of the addiction and recovery podcast Dopey. The show, ...