Red Sox Starting Pitchers Allowed to Drink in the Clubhouse Last Season

It seems many professional athletes make the news because they know how to work hard and play even harder. Unfortunately, oftentimes the “playing” involves drinking excessive amounts of alcohol or doing drugs. Since we hear about the over-the-top habits in the news quite frequently, many [...]

The issue of opiate addiction in Massachusetts is reaching such dangerous levels that policemen in certain areas of the state have taken to carrying the drug Narcan which reverses the effects of an opiate overdose – currently the most deadly class of prescription meds. Sometimes [...]

The Book of Drugs, a memoir written by Mike Doughty, the lead singer of the indie band Soul Coughing, pulls no punches. The book is aptly named as its contents describe such an excess of drug abuse, from alcohol and pot to heroin, that it [...]

Cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant, has a long history of use for gaining an athletic edge. The Incan culture of South America regularly used coca leaves to give them extra energy as they made their way through the high altitudes of the [...]

When someone is preparing to go under the knife, they may worry about the pain they will experience when they wake up or that something may go wrong during the surgery, but there are probably few people who give a thought as to whether or [...]

No one would guess when they meet Brad DeHaven from Granite Bay, an upscale community in Northern California, the trials he and his family have been through due to his son’s prescription pain medication addiction. Just two years ago, his 6’2” son, Brandon, weighed in [...]

The New York Post estimates that the number of people who die due to a cocaine overdose has dropped by half over the last few years, but researchers are still looking for a way to treat addiction to the substance with medications and vaccines. One [...]

In Washington, the number of people who die due to prescription drug overdose outnumber those who die in car accidents two to one, according to the Spokesman. Spokane County in Washington has one of the highest rates of prescription overdose deaths in the state – [...]

In the 1960s, Jean-Claude Proulx was a priest who took the drug addiction of his parishioners and the drug trade in his neighborhood very seriously. Not one to brush off this community-shattering problem, Proulx was famous – infamous, even – for his efforts in fighting [...]

Kate Middleton is spending her first year of marriage reaching out to populations all over England in the name of the crown. English drug and alcohol addicts were not left out of that equation. In fact, Middleton stopped in at an alcohol-free bar called The [...]