From Scientific American…
If you use cocaine and need a reason to quit—or one to avoid starting in the first place—think conservation. The national parks of Guatemala and other countries have become the preferred haven of drug traffickers who usurp protected areas and burn the forest to serve their own purposes and the demands of their [...]

Go Ask Alice!, Columbia University’s Health Q & A Internet Service, answers a question from a person who is curious about the effects of her prescribed Adderall on her sexual feelings and behavior.
Q: Dear Alice,
I am a teenage girl currently taking Adderall (20 mg) to treat my ADHD. My question: does taking this medication [...]

From the New York Times…
“I’ve grown up on medication,” my patient Julie told me recently. “I don’t have a sense of who I really am without it.”
At 31, she had been on one antidepressant or another nearly continuously since she was 14. There was little question that she had very serious depression and had [...]

Let’s Talk About Drugs!  

This will be a very informal event, led by the Peer Health Advocates. We’ll be discussing drugs, alcohol, harm reduction, and the social climate at Wesleyan. We expect this to be a group conversation, not a lecture by the PHAs. You can ask or talk about drugs, what they can do, how [...]

Inhalants are not a commonly used substance on college campuses. Research by the Core Institute indicates that in 2005,only 0.5% of over 33,000 college students reported using inhalants at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey. This compares to 73% for alcohol and 17% for marijuana.
Yet given the ease of access to perfectly legal [...]

From the New York Times…
Chopped pig pancreas may not sound appetizing. But most cystic fibrosis patients eat a refined version of it each breakfast, lunch and dinner — five large capsules a meal — to supply enzymes their bodies do not produce.
The pills are life-sustaining for most of the nearly 30,000 people in the United [...]

From the Hartford Courant…
Colleges across Connecticut have taken a number of steps to cast off the drinking culture that infuses so much of campus life.  The tactics they’ve employed include strictly enforcing existing rules, aggressively screening students for signs of risky behavior, establishing peer support programs and enlisting the help of local police, bar owners [...]

A recent article in the New York Times shared new research on references to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) in music. It stated that:
One in three popular songs contains explicit references to drug or alcohol use, according to a new report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. That means kids are receiving about [...]

From FriendsDriveSober.org…
Most times when people think of impaired driving, only alcohol comes to mind. Some students believe that drivers are just fine (or even more careful than normal and surely much better than while drunk) to drive when they’re high, right? Wrong – try again! Here’s the raw data that serves as proof that there [...]

From WebMD…
Even after suffering 10 days with a head cold, antibiotics won’t help your stuffy sinuses get better.
Antibiotics don’t help virus infections, the cause of most head colds. But after an adult patient has suffered stuffy sinuses for a week to 10 days, most doctors offer antibiotic treatment in case a bacterial infection has set [...]