For more than a decade, one of the most persistent claims in the tobacco control echo chamber has been that…
Adolescent drug use often triggers moral panics, fear-mongering and the passage of draconian laws to “keep the kids safe” by…
Alcohol plays a role in the lives of many college students, and is often experienced as pleasurable or beneficial. Like…
When I was young, I was living on the streets of Los Angeles at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic…
Pre-existing differences in brain structure are associated with earlier substance use in young people, according to a recent study. The…
Amid the moral panic over youth vaping and a widespread belief that it’s a “gateway” to cigarettes, youth smoking in…
The notion that nicotine vaping leads people to smoking—known as the “gateway” theory—is a common refrain among those who seek…
Newly published results of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey show a decline in the proportion of…
Walking across my college quad on a weekend evening, you might recognize the familiar fragrance of marijuana wafting through the…
A new study from the National Institutes of Health quantifies the vast number of children in the United States who…