drug use

(MedPage Today) -- Each year around the world, more than 200 million people use illegal drugs -- and marijuana still appears to be the drug of choice, researchers found.

Brainy kids -- especially girls -- may be more likely to experiment with marijuana, cocaine, and other illicit drugs when they grow up, according to a new report.

Black and Asian teens are less likely to use drugs and alcohol than their white counterparts, according to a new study.

The annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 39 percent of white teens between the ages of 12 and 17 admitted to using substances in the past year, compared to just 32 percent of blacks and 24 percent of Asians.

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) Anaesthesiologists have found that using a combination of hypnosis and local anaesthesia (LA) in surgery where LA is feasible but, not on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort, can aid healing and reduce drug use and hospital stays.

The problem of so-called "designer drugs" is running out of control in many regions of the world, the U.N. global drugs watchdog said Wednesday.

Decriminalising drug use could cut crime and improve health, the outgoing Royal College of Physicians president says.

A major retrospective study showed that men prescribed erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs such as sildenafil (Viagra) also had markedly higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases (MedPage Today) -- though the association could have more to do with behavior than ED drug use.

A biomarker-guided strategy for antibiotics in intensive care units reduced drug use without increasing mortality, researchers said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In its annual report on world drug use, the United Nations concludes that global markets for cocaine, opiates and marijuana are holding steady or in decline....