More than 60 per cent of drug users in the country take drugs for the first time before the age of 18. Peer influence plays a major role in initiating drug use.

Social work students at the University of Oklahoma offer solutions and calls to action amid state's growing substance abuse crisis.

New figures have revealed the number of children receiving treatment for drug abuse, with primary school pupils among those suspended from ...

The killing of a woman and her six children in Dorayi, Kano State, has renewed calls from civil society for justice, ...

The Head of the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency (BNN RI) Commissioner General Suyudi Ario Seto during a working visit to the BNN office in Surakarta City, Central Java, on Thursday (January 15, ...

H's new "Prevention Before Intervention" program will help students discuss substance abuse issues with their peers and learn ...

Learners at Rethomile Junior Secondary School in Sector 2, Block L, received vital safety and life skills lessons ...

At Ramon Torres Louisiana National High School in Barangay Ma-ao, Bago, Negros Occidental, student safety has become a shared responsibility, shaped less by slogans and more by steady cooperation ...

The FDA has started a priority review of Otsuka Pharma's triple-acting drug for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ...

Annie Malone said it received a notice Tuesday night that the federal grant funding for its SAFER Drug Prevention and Treatment program was terminated.

When a traumatised and dejected 17-year-old Hajara Musa was thrown out of her home by her father, it did not take long ...

As it steps up efforts to address bullying and other risks in schools, the Department of Education (DepEd) emphasized that strengthening partnerships ...