The Supreme court has legalized the private use of marijuana, upholding a lower court's ruling that found the criminalization of cannabis was unconstitutional.
In delivering the Constitutional...
At least seven people are believed to have died in Auckland this month after using synthetic cannabis, New Zealand police said Friday, warning users to stay away from the drug. Police said synthetic...
The youth of Akomadan and neighbouring villages in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti region are said to be engaging in massive abuse of a pain reliever called Tramadol. The drug, popularly...
US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health care scams worth $1.3 billion including the wrongful prescription and distribution...
Drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals was fined $35 million Tuesday for supplying and not reporting suspicious massive orders of its highly addictive oxycodone, helping to fuel the US...
Ghana has been ranked the third cocaine transit destination in Africa behind Nigeria and South Africa respectively. According to the 2016 World Drug Report by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...
Southeast Asian drug cartels are diversifying the narcotics they produce, the UN's crime agency warned Wednesday, with more than 160 new highs hitting the market in the last eight years. The Golden...
The US state of Ohio on Wednesday sued five major producers of prescription opioid medications, accusing them of lying about the deadly risks the painkillers -- at the center of a nationwide...
With flashy lights and lasers increasingly the norm at concerts, a New York promoter is trying a new effect to bring the focus back to the music -- darkness. In an experiment Friday night, more than...
The number of hepatitis C infections have nearly tripled in the United States in the last five years, particularly among people in their 20s, researchers said Thursday. The bloodborne virus is...
Ryan Brown grew up playing sports and the cello, shooting games of pool in his basement, surrounded by friends. Two weeks before his 28th birthday, Ryan died in the bathroom of a department store....
Hundreds of Israelis gathered on a grassy hill overlooking parliament on Thursday to smoke marijuana in an act of communal defiance of current laws. Sitting in small groups on mats shaded by trees in...
Parliament is considering passing a bill to tackle the menace of youth alcoholism in the country. Debating the issue on the floor of parliament, concerns were raised over how young men and women...
China´s drug problem is severe and growing, the government said Monday, with particularly sharp rises in the abuse and production of synthetic drugs which have become a major health concern...
Of the 2,900 babies born last year in Cabell County, West Virginia, 500 had to be weaned off of opioid dependence. In Ohio, counties are renting refrigerated trailers to store the mounting number of...
Ghana has launched a National Alcohol Policy after years of working with key stakeholders to combine the fragmented laws that exist on the production, distribution sale, advertisement and consumption...
A British former war correspondent will be released from a Bali prison in a matter of months after being handed a short jail term Thursday for using hashish on the Indonesian resort island....
Indonesian prosecutors Tuesday demanded a one-year jail term for an Australian businessman on trial for allegedly using hashish on the resort island of Bali. Giuseppe Serafino, 48, was arrested with...
THERE is a growing phenomenon in some drinking spots in the capital city, Accra, where ‘wee’ also known as Indian hemp, are sold openly to patrons of these drinking spots, Weekend Today can...
The number of older Americans taking multiple prescription drugs such as tranquilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics and painkillers has more than doubled in the past decade, researchers said...
