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Treating all U.S. prisoners who have hepatitis C with the standard therapy of pegylated-interferon and ribavirin would be cost-effective, says a new study in the November issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/).

Yale and NIH trained psychiatrist S. Paul Berger, MD, soon to be the director of the non-profit Skybridge Foundation, writes in the October 11, 2008 issue of The Lancet commentary titled "Psychiatrist calls for American Policymakers to Consider Implementing Recommendations from a British Report" that he supports the recommendations in the report "Brain Science, Addiction, and Drugs" on how to turbocharge clinical translation of basic research in the neurosciences.

The red wine ingredient resveratrol may help decrease the risk of liver diseases like cirrhosis and fibrosis, a new study suggests.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain favors drug policies that focus on tougher law enforcement while Barack Obama's approach is more oriented towards treatment.

A group dedicated to implementing a United Nations tobacco-control treaty has tallied nearly 40 million global tobacco fatalities on its "death clock."

Every day and everywhere you go in Iowa, you see people who are in recovery from alcohol or drug abuse. You can't tell by looking at them, but these are people whose substance abuse created problems for them professionally or personally and they decided to do something about it. In the same way, every School in Iowa is filled with children who must make a personal decision about whether they will abuse alcohol or drugs.

New research suggests that the increased availability of prescription opiates like hydrocodone, oxycodone and methadone is responsible for a surge in accidental overdose deaths and injuries among children under the age of 6.