| VIENNA (AP) -- Governments around the world must step up their efforts to limit access to "date-rape drugs," sedatives that are secretly added to a person's drink to limit their ability to resist sexual assault and remember it later, a watchdog said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't say "mental retardation" -- the new term is "intellectual disability." No more diagnoses of Asperger's syndrome -- call it a mild version of autism instead. And while "behavioral addictions" will be new to doctors' dictionaries, "Internet addiction" didn't make the cut.
LONDON (AP) -- Can you really be bored to death?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.
LONDON (AP) -- Contaminated heroin may have caused an anthrax outbreak among drug addicts in Scotland, killing six people and infecting 12 in total, health officials said Thursday.
LONDON (AP) -- Just as Britons brew black coffee to cope with holiday hangovers, they are also digesting a new report that warns the country's notorious drinking culture is putting an unacceptable strain on hospitals and medical staff.
SAN FRANCISCO (The New York Times News Service) -- Most cocaine coming into the United States has been diluted with a veterinary drug that is used to de-worm horses and other animals, but can cause severe illness and death in humans, public health experts say.
ST. PETERSBURG (The New York Times News Service) -- Parker Fox isn't surprised that more than half of his classmates say they have used illegal drugs.
DETROIT (AP) -- A decade-long decline in teens' use of pot has stalled and some teen attitudes on how harmful marijuana can be may be softening, according to a federal survey on teen drug use released Monday.
LONDON (AP) -- Tobacco use kills at least 5 million people every year, a figure that could rise if countries don't take stronger measures to combat smoking, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pharmaceutical executives laid out plans Friday to prevent the misuse of prescription painkillers, under pressure from regulators trying to stop hundreds of fatal overdoses each year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy drinks to prove their beverages are safe, citing complaints that the products can cause risky behavior and injury.
ALBANY, N.Y. (The New York Times News Service)-- The science of addiction is as stark as multicolored scans of the brains of chronic alcoholics.
MOSCOW (AP) -- AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country's fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first successful rigorous study of this approach to treating illicit drug use.
LONDON (AP) -- About half of heroin and crack cocaine addicts in England's treatment programs quit the drugs after six months, a new study says.
ATLANTA (AP) -- In 16 states and counting, drugs now kill more people than auto accidents do, the government said Wednesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Drug-related deaths outnumber those from motor vehicle accidents in a growing number of states, according to new government data that highlight a shift in the top cause of deaths after disease and illness.
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