These highly trained canines are taught to sniff out not just narcotics but cell phones, nicotine and other contraband at California prisons.

What is this approach and why is it so important to long-term sobriety?

The troubled model-turned-reality star continues to live on through the legal proceedings that followed her untimely death.

What does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder have to do with the popular and dangerous club drug Ecstasy?

For those trying to get clean, it can often feel like a battle between two very different personalities.

The long-held medical belief that there is a connection between pot and schizophrenia is being challenged by new science.

The celebutante heiress can’t seem to stay out of trouble with foreign law enforcement, but she insists the claims of marijuana possession are all a misunderstanding.

It’s the latest dangerous way kids are getting high, but what is it and how does it work?

A Puerto Rican drug lord is captured as international officials continue to crack down.

Is there a difference between abuse and dependence? The DSM-IV says there is and has the detailed definitions to prove it.

The pop star crashed a car into a London building and was taken into custody on suspicion of being unfit to drive, a charge he’s faced before.

“Narco-subs” are the latest in drug trafficking technology, representing a new threat to the U.S. war on drugs.

The age of addicts seeking treatment is rising at an alarming rate.

A new sentence of jail followed by treatment for probation violations has reinvigorated the debate about using jail as a punishment for the disease of addiction.

A father’s careless actions due to addiction highlight the dangers for kids when those who should be watching out for them are lost in substance abuse.

The U.K. approves the first cannabis-derived drug for use by multiple sclerosis patients. Will it impact the medical marijuana debate in the U.S.?

Rapper Eminem’s new album, Recovery, is truly a case of art imitating life.

A new study shows that a positive approach may have better results when it comes to keeping kids off drugs.

It’s official: another talented musician lost his life to addiction.

Researchers are working to identify at-risk kids in an effort to stop addiction before it starts.