Genetics plays a 50 percent role in a person’s chances of developing addiction, according to Dr. Stuart Gitlow, executive director of the Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addictive Disease at ...

Experts take issue with President Obama%2C saying there%27s still a lack of knowledge about marijuana%27s health effects Marijuana advocates say risks with marijuana are small compared to alcohol or ...

Heroin has surpassed prescription painkillers as the leading cause of death from drug overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The latest numbers account for the 25,426 ...

In 10 years of marijuana activism and six years in the marijuana media, I’ve reported on a whole lot of reefer madness. But the recent response by the head of the American Society for Addiction ...

CHICAGO — Illinois should not legalize cannabis, and physicians should not write recommendations for patients to use marijuana for medical purposes, because it is a dangerous, addictive drug and is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Obama hugs Carey Dixon, who spoke at a community discussion on drug addiction hosted by the president during a visit to ...

Physicians and drug policy groups are sharply at odds over President Obama's statement to a magazine that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer ...