A new study in the journal Addiction found 1 in 9 adults over 65 who use cannabis meet the criteria for cannabis use disorder. Most cases are mild. Here are the tells families can see, and what to do.
Americans are drinking less for the first time since the pandemic. Adults 50 to 64 went the other way: heavy drinking rose more than 36% from 2018 to 2024. Why it hits harder after 50, and what to do.
A new Lancet Regional Health study counted every U.S. cancer death caused by alcohol from 1990 to 2023. The total doubled. Under 55, the killer is colorectal cancer in men and breast cancer in women, and 83% of these deaths trace to drinking above the old limits.
The government paid for a study on how much alcohol is safe, then shelved it. Published in June 2026, it found no safe level and a 1-in-25 lifetime death risk at two drinks a day.
Alcohol deaths among women 25-34 rose 255% since 1999 – the steepest rise of any group. Why the same drinking does more damage to women, and what the new federal guidelines quietly removed.
A veterinary sedative is now riding along with fentanyl. Narcan restores breathing but not the sedation, and the withdrawal can put people in the ICU. What to do — and what comes after the hospital.
Texas began enforcing its delta-8 ban July 31. For daily users, withdrawal is real, temporary, and mostly over in three weeks. Here is the timeline and who should get help.
Two randomized trials tested semaglutide in people with alcohol use disorder. Heavy drinking days fell from about 17 a month to 5 — but everyone in the trial was also in therapy, and the placebo group got two thirds of the way there on its own.
U.S. overdose deaths fell 12.1% to about 68,641. That does not mean fewer people are addicted. What the numbers really say, and the 7-day rule after any overdose reversal.
By Danny Andino, CEO, Arise Recovery Centers · Clinically reviewed by Nicholas Overbeck, LPC-S, LCDC There’s a product that’s been sitting next to the energy shots at gas stations and smoke shops all over Texas — shiny packets of tablets and gummies with names most parents have never heard of. It acts on the same brain receptors as morphine. And as of this month, the federal government is pulling it off the shelves. Here’s the part almost nobody is covering: a ban doesn’t un-addict anyone. The day those products disappear from the counter, the people who’ve been taking them every
