I grew up on a small farm in central Pennsylvania with a small herd of cattle, pigs and chickens, but my folks weren’t real farmers. My father was an insurance agent and my mother a homemaker. This ...

This is your brain on drugs — and it’s not good. A new study billed as the “largest of its kind” used brain imaging technology to examine the effects of recent and lifetime cannabis use on 1,000 ...

We now know that chronic substance use—of both alcohol and drugs—actually changes the chemistry and structure of the brain. That sounds serious, and it is, but there are some positives and some ...

I’ve been staring at my computer screen for the better part of an hour trying to come up with a topic for this column, but my brain is still fried from spending all last week in Jackson covering the ...

The CDC just launched a campaign, “Free Mind,” to teach youth about the connections between substance use and mental health. Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, director of the CDC's National Center for Injury ...

America-s drug czar has admitted that nearly one billion dollars and five years after it began, the White House-s anti-drug campaign targeting the nation-s youth has flopped. The media is peppered ...

When you've eaten a good meal at a restaurant and the waiter asks, "Got any room for dessert?" where does the voice that craves a gratuitous slice of pie come from? Your brain. Scientists now have a ...

Does using alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis engender addiction by changing the structure of brains, or does the structure of brains incline some people toward using those substances? In standard brain ...

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

TikTok health expert, Dr Bing, has revealed four ways marijuana can impact your brain as cannabis can have a worrying long-term effect.

Editor's note: This is the fourth of five stories the Telegram is running this week to highlight Education Week. COLUMBUS - Flipping the switch on the overhead projector, Officer Gilbert Maschmeier of ...