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.