The effects of smoking Salvia divinorum are surprisingly strong, brief and intensely disorienting, but without apparent short-term adverse effects in healthy people, according to a new study by Johns ...

I do prevention work with alcohol and drugs, so I am a consumer and a researcher in the field, and I need to keep up with the drug use fashion. Drugs come into fashion and leave fashion, and sometimes ...

The Mazatac Indians have used salvia for centuries with no obvious ill effects, but it remains unclear whether salvia causes long-term effects on the brain or body. However, physical and psychological ...

Nurse practitioners can screen youths for substance abuse at every wellness visit and when episodic illness suggests substance use or abuse as a differential diagnosis. Nurse practitioners can also ...

I do prevention work with alcohol and drugs, so I am a consumer and a researcher in the field, and I need to keep up with the drug use fashion. Drugs come into fashion and leave fashion, and sometimes ...

After the Jan. 8 Tucson shooting, when 22-year-old Jared Loughner killed eight and injured 13 while allegedly using salvia, many Boston University students and faculty members said they feel the drug ...

The normally staid Associated Press attached a headline to a March 11 story that inquired, “Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?” If the AP meant to ask whether Salvia divinorum is the next misunderstood ...