High-risk drinking among college students is related to the types of parties they attend, according to a recent web survey of undergraduate students attending two large urban universities.

The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) announced "Smart Moves, Smart Choices," a program that responds to the growing rate of prescription drug abuse among middle and high school students nationwide.

Researchers found an apparent link between heavy drinking or heavy smoking by people in their 40s and the development of Alzheimer's disease decades later.

A new study suggests that a mother's substance use during pregnancy, especially a combination of substances, may result in a smaller brain for her child.

Interviews with college students found that a shocking 34 percent of male drinkers and 24 percent of females said they had celebrated their 21st birthday by consuming 21 or more drinks, the New York Times reported.

Signing a government program for addicted felons into law, President Bush took the opportunity to remind the public that his personal recovery didn't require government intervention.

Many veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other combat-related trauma self-medicate with alcohol and other drugs.

U.K. researchers say that teens who binge drinking can suffer from memory impairment even days after they stop drinking alcohol, the  BBC reported April 3.

Young children who are prescribed stimulants to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are no more likely to have alcohol or other drug addiction problems later in life than other young people, according to researchers. However, older kids given Ritalin did have higher rates of drug problems as adults, one study found.

Adolescent males who smoke tend to be shorter than those who abstain, and young female smokers are no more likely to lose weight than nonsmokers, according to Canadian researchers.