Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What’s more, it’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear when it will fall again. That’s the picture painted by federal health statistics, which show a rise in per-person consumption and increases in emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths tied to drinking. The stats aren’t all bad....

The number of alcohol-related deaths has grown rapidly in recent decades, according to a new analysis of death certificates, NBC News reports. The research, published Wednesday in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

High school students were getting marijuana for vape pens from a gas station in Cheshire, according to police, and a clerk is accused of selling it to them.

A Putnam man faces DUI and reckless driving charges after a crash in Putnam that seriously injured one of his passengers, according to Putnam police.

The official drink of the Kentucky Derby is the bourbon-based Mint Julep. Have you ever wondered where bourbon comes from or how it gets made? “1st Look” got a lesson in how to properly distill and age the liquor.

A new method for battling teenage opioid abuse comes not in the form of a new drug or counseling method, but in special “recovery schools” that emphasize communal support and positive peer pressure.

A fertilizer explosion in West, Texas, that killed 15 and injured dozens of others in April 2013 was intentionally set, government officials said during a press conference Wednesday.

A new Target store set to open in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood is on track to become the first ever Target store to serve alcohol to customers.

A new Target store set to open in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood is on track to become the first ever Target store to serve alcohol to customers.