addiction

After a history of alcoholism, former Red Wing great Darren McCarty found a way to battle his addiction. "I've used medical marijuana and it saved my life," he said. McCarty said addiction has been a part of his life for years - alcoholism always seemed to win, until now. The former...

Can medical marijuana be a fix for the prescription-drug epidemic? Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants federal health officials to find out. Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate how pot is or isn't working to reduce reliance on highly addictive...

The rise in alcohol addiction in India is the result of the ban on cannabis. That is, according to Lok Sabha MP from Odisha Tathagata Satpathy. Speaking in the parliament on Thursday, the Biju Janata Dal MP pitched for the legalisation of weed. This is not the first time that Satpathy has...

TREAT ADDICTION, DON'T JAIL IT Dear editor, Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. Addiction is an obsessive compulsive behavior that interferes with everyday life. For an addict to change they must change their people, places and things...