Health officials in Vancouver, Canada have announced a pilot project to distribute clean, unused crack pipes to drug users later this year, as part of a "harm reduction" program to reduce spread of disease.
A report by doctors at New York's Bellevue Hospital describes how 11 young people - 10 of them under the legal drinking age of 21 - were rushed to the emergency room after drinking the "alcopop" Four Loko.
Women who suffer gender-based violence have a much higher-than-average lifetime risk of substance abuse disorders and other mental health disorders, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
