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Trial drug may help smokers kick butts

When Katherine Frazier was a teenager in Silver Spring, Maryland, back in the '60s, smoking was the "in" thing to do. She thought it was glamorous. She thought it was cool. Her friends smoked, her parents smoked, and at the time, no one knew that smoking tobacco could kill you.

Fortune: How marijuana became legal

When Irvin Rosenfeld, 56, picks me up at the Fort Lauderdale airport, his SUV reeks of marijuana. The vice president for sales at a local brokerage firm, Rosenfeld has been smoking 10 to 12 marijuana cigarettes a day for 38 years, he says.

Commentary: Danger in your pill bottle

Prescribed opioids -- pain medication -- have become the fastest-growing addiction problem in the United States. They are second to marijuana as the most commonly used illicit substances.

Government runs nation's only legal pot garden

Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently as an assistant unlocks the stainless steel door to a climate-controlled vault.

Time.com: A Genetic Clue to Quitting Smoking

A blood test may one day be able to predict how a smoker will respond to two popular methods of kicking the habit

Report: Depressed teens, marijuana a dangerous mix

Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious mental health problems, including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report.

Time.com: A Drug to End Drug Addiction

An experimental vaccine may help cocaine addicts break the cycle of dependency. Other addiction vaccines could follow

Time.com: Becoming a Statistic

As police and lawmakers continue the fight against substance abuse, researchers are working on new ways to gauge America's addictions

Dobbs: The war within, killing ourselves

We're fighting a war that is inflicting even greater casualties than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, incredibly, costing even more money. We're losing the War on Drugs, and we've been in retreat for three decades.

Study: Teens getting high on legal drugs

Slightly fewer adolescents abused illegal drugs and alcohol in 2006, but fairly high numbers of them continued to abuse prescription narcotics, according to a new study.

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