Marijuana: Clinical, Research, Policy

Drug addiction is the newest threat to the youth health and quality of life in global spectrum. World Health Organization (WHO) has been postulated the term ‘Substance abuse’ for such drug addiction related psychotic anomalies, which is taking lives of in an increasing rate. Only in USA, it has been seen in a study by National Center for Health Statistics that, from 2002 to 2015 there was a 2.2-fold increase in the total number of drug overdose deaths, which is a warning concern [1]. Another report has showed that, approximately 200,000 people worldwide die from drug abuse. Hence, control in such abusive use of psychotic drug is the most urgent need of time. Moreover, research and studies are the only way out to cope up the adverse effect of addictive drugs. Keeping that in aim, the present journal of Addictive Research and Therapy is presenting relevant information and providing positive contribution in the knowledge data base for addictive research.