Nora Volkow

The U.S. cannabis industry, valued at $30 billion, is experiencing a notable change: young women are now consuming more cannabis than men for the first time. This trend is causing companies to reevaluate their product offerings and marketing strategies, as reported by Reuters. See Also: 20 Most...

Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has raised concerns over the cannabis industry’s marketing strategies, drawing parallels with tactics used by the alcohol and tobacco industries. In a blog post published last week, Volkow highlighted that older adults...

Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), has stressed the urgent need to overhaul America’s approach to drug addiction. In a recent opinion piece published in STAT and republished on NIDA’s website, Volkow criticized the prevailing notion that incarcerating...

"Tremendous Excitement" Around Psychedelic Medicine, Says Top Federal Drug Official There is "tremendous excitement" about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, says National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow. However, this top federal drug official emphasized that while...

Cannabis and psychedelics consumption continued on a long-term upward trajectory to reach all-time highs in 2022, according to a Monitoring the Future (MTF) study. Although teenage marijuana use showed a year-over-year decline per last summer’s survey.  Past-year...

Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said that regulating cannabis products is "crucial," to address the pace of states' adoption of both medical and recreational use of cannabis. "I think that is crucial because, as you know, the majority of...

Young men with cannabis use disorder, or excessive dependency on marijuana consumption, are at higher risk of developing schizophrenia, according to a study led by researchers at the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at...

As the opioid crisis continues to destroy thousands of lives every year, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals the horror of a specific danger...fentanyl. The report comes several weeks after the Biden administration declared fentanyl combined with...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is requesting more time from federal court in relation to a lawsuit on the legality of safe drug consumption sites, reported Marijuana Moment. The non-profit Safehouse filed a complaint asking the court to protect its proposed consumption center...

Here's How Safe Drug Consumption Sites Could Get Green Light Just days after National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Nora Volkow said safe consumption sites are "preventing people from dying," congressional researchers issued a report focused on opioid regulations under...

Safe consumption sites have proven useful in saving patients from overdosing, a top federal drug official said. “Yes, it’s preventing people from dying,” National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow, said at the recent STAT Summit, reported Marijuana Moment....

This article was originally published in December 2021. Director of National Institute On Drug Abuse (NIDA) Dr. Nora Volkow recently discussed the benefits and harms of cannabis consumption in an interview with FiveThirtyEight, wherein she acknowledged that there is no...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealing that the most common substances for which adult Americans have sought substance misuse treatment in 2019 were alcohol, cannabis, and a combination of...

How does occasional cannabis use affect our health? A frequent question, for which there is no simple and conclusive answer. The impact on our overall physical and mental health has yet to be fully researched. The federal status of cannabis as a Schedule I drug severely limits scientific...

Our brains can be affected by what we consume and what we are exposed to, says neuroscientist Dr. Yasmin Hurd in an online presentation “Neuroscience and Cannabis: Implications for Law and Policy” she gave on 4/20, which was part of the Project on Law and Applied...