Money and illegal drugs are inextricable. This roundup brings together recent research exploring the wide-ranging relationship between economics and drugs.

Benzodiazepine prescriptions are on the rise. We explain the anti-anxiety drugs' potential for abuse, addiction and overdose.

National rates of cocaine use have climbed in recent years, and the ubiquity of the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl has made the resurgence particularly deadly. We’ve summarized some of the latest research.

Key facts and the latest scholarship on methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that has recently made a resurgence.

There is little evidence to suggest that fatal car accidents increase on April 20 (4/20), an annual holiday that celebrates marijuana.

Are workplace recovery programs successful in helping people to quit abusing drugs and avoid relapsing? A growing field of research suggests the answer is yes, though their success may have more to do with incentives than the nature of work itself. There are a few ways that scholars have studied the relationship between employment

This roundup of research focuses on border barriers — what they are, why they have become popular, whether they actually help countries control their borders and how they impact the environment and local communities.

More newborns suffer from drug withdrawal in counties experiencing shortages of mental health care providers and higher rates of unemployment.

A new study identifies one important driver of heroin overdoses in the United States: the reformulation of Oxycontin.

Two new studies show that American patients in the rural South are more likely to receive opioid prescriptions than patients in the urban North.