If you’ve heard the term bandied about but never really understood the classification of “club drugs,” we provide the following information so you can be better informed when you next hear some jargon.According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) club drugs can be briefly defined as a group of drugs being used by [...]
Though it has been around for thousands of years, it wasn’t until the 20th century that marijuana was first criminalized. The United States didn’t declare the use of this substance illegal until the 1930s with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. In the US, the ’60s and ’70s saw an epidemic of marijuana use, which [...]
If you’ve spent any time around a college campus this trend might surprise you, but according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the United States is seeing significant improvements in the occurrence of drug abuse. NIDA has conducted research and studies among high schoolers and found that, with the exception of marijuana, illicit [...]