According to a new study ,the male flies that had been repeatedly spurned by females were more likely to turn to alcohol to self-medicate their frustration.
Drunk fruit flies may seem trifling ,and as a topic of this the findings reveal about the neurochemistry that drives behaviors like sex and eating may point the way to [...]
JERSEY CITY — On the rough-edged streets of Harlem in the 1940s, the young Walter Dean Myers knew better than to carry his library books where other children could see them.
“I was teased if I brought my books home,” said Mr. Myers, now a prolific and award-winning children’s book author. “I would take a paper [...]
The latest update to the annual Monitoring the Future survey of drug use in American youth bears mainly good news, at least if your interest is in reducing drug-related harm: both teen drinking and cigarette smoking are at historic lows; in fact, past-month marijuana use is now more commonly reported by high school seniors than [...]
Of the 21,798 drivers were killed on the road in the United States in 2009, about 18 percent of them had drugs in their system at the time of death, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in a new report released Tuesday.
The NHTSA reports that the percentage of road fatalities linked to drug involvement [...]
