Eons before Europeans arrived in North America, Native Americans cultivated the tobacco leaf for ceremonial activities and medicinal purposes for use during prayers and rituals. They presented the ...

Parents are increasingly facing a problem that just years ago would have seemed unfathomable: their kids are addicted to vaping. The rise in teen e-cigarette use has been reiterated in study after ...

Nicotine quickly enters your bloodstream. Your liver then breaks down nicotine into several byproducts, primarily cotinine. Depending on what you're testing, such as a blood, urine, saliva, or hair ...

The Dearborn Police Department is distributing free drug testing kits for parents worried their children may be using illicit substances. The Parental Evaluation Resource Kits (PERK) include a 5-panel ...

UCSF’s Habit Abatement Clinic is testing a vaccine that enlists help from the immune system to keep nicotine away from the brain. The vaccine is designed to help smokers quit and to limit the urge to ...

NORTH JACKSON — Seven parents and two students took to the podium to question the effectiveness of the Jackson-Milton school district’s drug testing policy at its board meeting earlier this week. The ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about the controversy over Weyco, a Michigan company that's requiring employees to take a nicotine test. Four employees who refused to take test as ...

Aleksandras Radzius, Joseph J. Gallo, David H. Epstein, David A. Gorelick, Jean Lud Cadet, George E. Uhl and Eric T. Moolchan Psychometric study of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) ...

More Seaman High School students are self-reporting drug and nicotine use when confronted with either voluntary admission or mandatory hair sample testing, administrators told the Seaman Board of ...

Daily nicotine vaping nearly doubled between 2020 and 2024 among U.S. middle and high school students who use e-cigarettes, ...