Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, but roughly make up 25 percent of all drug related arrests, reports the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

African American students who attend historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, are less likely to use drugs and abuse alcohol, are more likely to have close relationships and talk ...

Black men of this generation, born from 1951 to 1970, came of age at a time of wide economic disparities between Black and white people in their cities. Some of them served in Vietnam, where they ...

October 4, 2011 (Las Vegas, Nevada) — An immediate-release oxycodone tablet designed to cause various unpleasant sensations when inhaled shows efficacy in preventing the abuse of the drug ...

In Philadelphia, older Black men were actually less likely to die than their white peers — until recently. By 2018, their death rate had shot up, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer analysis.

Its abuse can occur by taking a prescribed version of the drug differently than is directed, and, like other illicit substances, "can also be purchased without a prescription on the dark web ...