Fewer Kids Use Ecstasy, LSD, Drug Report Finds
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Fewer U.S. teens are using  marijuana, Ecstasy or LSD but more are bingeing on alcohol and  abusing prescription drugs, according to an annual government  survey released on Thursday.
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Nearly four in five young people arrested for juvenile crimes are involved with alcohol or drugs, and few are getting treatment, a study of the juvenile justice system finds.
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The latest US government survey of drug, cigarette and alcohol use among teens, Monitoring the Future (MTF), indicates a significant overall drop in illicit drug use.
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Fewer American teenagers are having sex, and those who do are using contraceptives more often, according to a new survey from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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SMOKING and drinking among 12-year-old girls is on the rise, a large-scale survey of New South Wales high schools has revealed. Overall, drug use among the student population is falling, which
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Ecstasy is back after years of decline with a major pipeline through Canada, law enforcement officials say. Most alarming, they says, is more than half of all ecstasy seized in the U.S. last year was laced with meth. "It's easy to get," one New York teen told CNN.
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A survey suggests fewer youngsters drink regularly,   but many of those who do drink too much.
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About 1.2 million people age 12 and older used the brain-damaging drug methamphetamine or prescription stimulants for non-medical reasons in 2003, unchanged from the year before, the government's substance abuse prevention agency reported Friday.
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Nearly a quarter of teens say it would be "very easy" or "somewhat easy" to gain access to methamphetamine, a survey released Tuesday shows.
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Children whose mothers were exposed to several widely available solvents during pregnancy score lower on language and behavior tests than children whose mothers were not exposed to solvents during pregnancy, according to a study published in the Oct.
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Parents of hyperactive children say drugs often fail to damp down symptoms at crucial times of day.
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Boys who were repeatedly exposed to cocaine while in their mother's womb are more likely than girls or non-exposed children to be hyperactive or have other problem behaviors at six or seven years of age, new study findings show.
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WASHINGTON   It&#39;s not just a cliche: Sex and drugs often do go together, says a survey of US teenagers.
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A snapshot of an average day in the lives of U.S. teens shows hundreds of thousands are smoking, drinking and ingesting illegal drugs, according to a report from the federal government.
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By Deseret Morning News editorial  -- Winner: Years ago, grown-ups all over Utah were atwitter over threats posed by the drug known as ecstasy, which was being used at parties known as raves. The furor has since died down, but it's good to know law enforcement hasn't forgotten.
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MONDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 9 percent of American children have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but only 32 percent of them are getting the medication they need.
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NEW YORK  - Children who were exposed to cocaine in the womb show poorer-than-average language skills during their early years and do not catch up, new research suggests.