In what can truly be called a brush with the law, Kelly Sott, the girlfriend of alleged crystal meth dealer and son of famous actor Michael Douglas, Cameron Douglas, was arrested after trying to smuggle heroin inside an electric toothbrush to Cameron Douglas while he was on house arrest at his mother's home on New York's upper East Side. Nothing takes away plaque and decay quite like heroin.

This is what the brain says when people use tobacco, as well as ‘hard drugs’ such as heroin. New research published in the February 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience indicates that the effects of nicotine and opiates on the brain's reward system are equally strong in a key pleasure-sensing areas of the brain – the nucleus accumbens.

In this week’s BMJ experts debate whether heroin should be prescribed to addicts who are difficult to treat.

Afghanistan’s blooming heroin production led to appearance of two new "Golden Triangles" of lawlessness on the country's borders with Pakistan, Iran and Turkmenistan , the U.S. anti-narcotics chief said on Friday.

Scientists at the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility can tell whether marijuana confiscated in a traffic stop in Fairbanks likely came from Mexico or the Matanuska Valley.