Washington, DC - Millions of American teens report experiencing weeks of hopelessness and loss of interest in normal daily activities and many of these depressed teens are using marijuana and other drugs, making their situation worse, according to a new White House report released today. The report, from the White House Office of National Drug [...]

AHRQ.gov - If you are looking for the latest proven information on how to stop smoking, this news can help. An updated clinical practice guideline released May 7, 2008 by the U.S. Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking. In addition, the May 7, [...]

VCU.edu - More and more U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes – or hookahs – and it’s becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher.
The findings offer important insight into the prevalence and perceptions related to waterpipe tobacco smokers and are reported in [...]

Babies conceived during a period of famine are at risk of developing addictions later in life, according to new research published in the international journal Addiction. Researchers from the Dutch mental health care organization, Bouman GGZ, and Erasmus University Rotterdam studied men and women born in Rotterdam between 1944 and 1947, the time of the [...]

Blackwell Publishing - A study in the journal Respirology finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than those who have the habit of smoking tobacco cigarettes.
A condition often caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or long-term exposure to tobacco smoke, bullous lung disease (also known as [...]

Johns Hopkins Medicine - Research by a group of scientists studying the effects of heavy marijuana (cannabis) use suggests that withdrawal from the use of marijuana is similar to what is experienced by people when they quit smoking cigarettes. Abstinence from each of these drugs appears to cause several common symptoms, such as irritability, anger [...]