Houston, TX – The current fentanyl crisis has caused a shift in drug education. Now, schools and police departments feel children as young as the 5th grade should learn about the dangers of hard drugs ...

Here's what a new poll reveals about Amerians' views on drug education. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) The poll, which was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative ...

ZANESVILLE — The Muskingum County Prosecutor's Office is awarding more than $30,000 in drug forfeiture money to local schools and community organizations for drug education and prevention programming.

Like millions of people in the United States, I participated in Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), the iconic drug education program rooted in the abstinence-only, “just say no” message of the ...

For decades, being a public school student in the United States almost universally meant you were required to sit through the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program. But for all the stern ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Mim Shafer, head of the health department at Mission High ...

The 19-year-old recounts a recent incident in which his friends got ahold of a drug that test strips showed was laced with fentanyl, a potent, often deadly, synthetic opioid. "That's kind of when I ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — State leaders say they are on a mission to figure out just how bad opioid use is in schools. Ellen Bernstein, president of the Albuquerque Teachers Federation, says the drugs we ...

Along with the many academic decisions you have to make as a college student (what to study, when to take your classes, how much to party versus studying), there are also difficult decisions you need ...

This story was originally published on Nov. 9, 2023 and has been updated to include an episode on the topic from Life Kit. College sophomore Elias Myers thinks his friends are lucky to be alive. The ...