As prescription drug abuse ... opportunity that is taken to divert drugs is the period between when a nurse or provider acquires the medicine until the treatment is either administered or destroyed.

It can occur with prescription or nonprescription drugs. It can also range from mild to severe. Substance use disorder, formerly known as “drug abuse,” develops when substance use interferes ...

Use of heroin and other opiates continued a significant upward trend in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area in 2009, according to the latest Drug Trends Report for 2009 released by the Minnesota ...

Teen drug use is on the rise with opioids gaining popularity especially among girls ages 12 to 17, according to an alarming new study.

According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 3.8 percent of American adults abuse opioids each year. Heroin is a drug that comes from a flower, the opium poppy, which usually grows ...

After a 15-year lull, abuse of prescription narcotic ... of the country to divert prescription drugs into the illicit market. As in the past, adequate treatment of intractable pain is again ...

Singer Chaka Khan and her sister, Yvonne Stevens, have entered a drug rehabilation program to treat their addiction to prescription ... her and her sister to seek treatment.