Children of these parents are more likely to have mental health issues − and ultimately suffer from substance use disorder themselves.

According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, nearly 24 percent of all college students use illicit drugs. So parents are taking steps to help protect their students from drug overdoses.

The National Rehabilitation Center (NRC) has issued a strong call to parents, highlighting 11 warning signs that could indicate a child’s involvement with drugs. The Center stressed the ...

Watch our joint investigation with CBS Sunday Morning into how hospitals use unreliable test results to report parents to child welfare agencies.

A large percentage of American children are growing up in households with at least one parent who uses alcohol or other drugs in problematic ways—raising the risk that those children will go ...