A survey has found about a quarter (24 per cent) of New Zealanders who used an over-the-counter painkiller in the past three months took one which contained codeine and half of those people (47 per cent) consumed the addictive drug unwittingly.

For the past three years a program has been in place to help people, who are struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, turn their lives around.

DALTON TOWNSHIP -- The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Dalton Township, saying it violated federal disability law by ordering a group home serving recovering drug and alcohol users to close.

London, July 30 : A combo pill of two addiction drugs can help people lose weight, say US researchers. Naltrexone, commonly used to treat alcoholics and heroin addicts, and the anti-smoking drug bupropion led to greater weight loss than diet and exercise alone, reports The Lancet. It is thought the treatment may help beat food cravings.

Every one of the eight graduates honored in the 19th JudicialCircuit's Drug Court Graduation Ceremony Thursday has a differentstory.

EWING The Ewing Drug And Alcohol Alliance has asked Mayor Jack Ball to reconsider his administrations decision to eliminate 3 school resource officers, warning the move will cost township students and schools state funds to combat crime, gangs and substance abuse.

Obese patients who took Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. s experimental pill combining an anti- addiction drug and an antidepressant lost more weight than those who took a placebo, a company-sponsored study found.