DETROIT – There's a new health warning from doctors about teens searching for a new way to get high. Dr. Frank McGeorge took a look at what they're using and why police are sounding the alarm. Police ...

While I was in a South Florida garden years ago, my eye was caught by brilliant flecks of color dotting the closely cropped grass. They were the red fruit of a 25-foot-tall betel nut palm that cast ...

Betel nut, the seed of the areca palm fruit, is often chewed inside a betel leaf with lime. The practice has been known for its psychoactive effects, including heightened alertness and euphoria.

While I was in a South Florida garden years ago, my eye was caught by brilliant flecks of color dotting the closely cropped grass. They were the red fruit of a 25-foot-tall betel nut palm that cast ...

Several hundred million people today practice the ancient custom of chewing betel. In south Asia, where the habit is most prevalent, the signs are hard to miss. Placed inside the cheek and sucked for ...

The betel nut (or areca nut, or, more properly the seed of the acreca palm Areca catechu) is common to many parts of the Pacific, Asia, and parts of east Africa. The seed is referred to as betel nut, ...