State and federal health officials updated reporters Friday on investigations into cases of pulmonary disease in people who vape nicotine and/or THC.
Author: Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
Study linking vaping to heart attacks muddied amid spat between two tobacco researchers
Louisville professor Brad Rodu wants the Journal of the American Heart Association to retract a study by San Francisco professor Stanton Glantz.
Help hard to find for teens struggling with mental health, thoughts of suicide
Early diagnosis, treatment is key to reducing suicide and addiction.Nearly half of people who suffer from addiction have amental health disorder.
Why Big Pharma distrust is fueling the anti-vaxxer movement and playing a role in the measles outbreak
As distrust of the pharmaceutical industry grows, so too has the anti-vaccination movement. And that is a critical issue as measles cases balloon.
Teens aren’t socializing in the real world. And that’s making them super lonely
The percent of high school seniors who said they often felt lonely increased from 26 percentin 2012 to 39percentin 2017.
Depression, anxiety, nicotine withdrawal: Trying to quit vaping ‘was hell’
E-cigarettes were introduced to help smokers quit. But for those trying to quit vaping, nicotine withdrawal can be ‘hell’
Quitting alcohol can be deadly: Hundreds in the US die each year
Doctors say alcohol is often the most dangerous substance for the body to withdraw from – and still more so, when attemptedwithout medical supervision.
My ‘bottom’ was being drunk on TV. But I’m grateful I hit it before I killed myself or others
I stopped drinking in 1992, so I thought society’s drinking problem had changed along with my own. In fact, alcohol-related deaths are on the rise.
Alcohol is killing more people, and younger. The biggest increases are among women
From 2007 to 2017, the numberof deaths attributable to alcohol increased 35 percent. The death rate rose 24 percent. Deaths among women rose 67 percent.