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"Drink responsibly” messages function as one tool in the alcohol industry’s marketing toolbox to promote, grow loyalty to and build credibility for its brands. The “drink responsibly” slogan also serves as a public relations distraction for alcohol corporations fighting evidence-based, effective policies such as increasing alcohol taxes, restricting alcohol advertising, and maintaining state control of alcohol sales.

American teenagers have the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse in the developed world. And they are far more likely to be killed by violence than peers in Europe.

This lost generation, whose unemployment rate is 20 percent, leads the modern world in some of the most dangerous and irresponsible behaviors, according to a new study released by the Lancet medical journal.
The shocking data was released to highlight cultural neglect occurring in the adolescents and young adults -- too many of whom die young, according to the researchers behind the publication.

In the first half of a two-part column, Sullivan Smith, MD, Medical Director of the Cookeville (Tennessee) Regional Medical Center, discusses the basics of “bath salts” and “plant food,” and what substance abuse professionals need to know about these popular synthetic drugs.

Minneapolis firefighter Larry Wajda repeatedly sold methamphetamine to undercover police informants out of Fire Station 19 across from the University of Minnesota's football stadium, newly released documents claim.

Cocaine has recently been in the news since the coroner’s office found the drug in singer Whitney Houston’s system and linked it to her death.  While cocaine use remains a public health issue in the United States, levels of its use have dropped significantly in the past few years.

A new report shows that women aged 18 to 49 on probation or parole are nearly twice as likely to experience mental illness as other women.

The night before St. Patrick's Day last year, Timothy LaMere arrived at a Blaine house party with his friend Trevor Robinson. LaMere passed out some drugs, and the two men, along with nine other partiers, got high. Hours later, Robinson, 19, was dead from an overdose.

A hard-hitting national ad campaign that depicts the harsh reality of illness and damage suffered as a result of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke was launched today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Beginning Monday, March 19, ads will run for at least 12 weeks on television, radio, and billboards, online, and in theaters, magazines, and newspapers nationwide.

Metro Transit and Miller Lite are teaming up to promote responsible celebrating on St. Patrick’s Day with Miller Lite Free Rides on buses, light rail and Northstar.

Among college students who drink heavily, those who black out are more likely to seek emergency care, costing about $500,000 a year at a campus the size of UW-Madison, a new study says.