One of the most powerful illusions in addiction is functionality. People continue working, parenting, socializing, and paying bills, which becomes evidence that nothing is wrong. Crisis is treated as ...

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

A former heroin addict has welcomed the opening of a new £3.7m substance support service. The New Start Drug and Alcohol ...

A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the destructive. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as ...

The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug ...

A drug addict that allowed a Nottingham-based county lines gang to use her home to store and deal class-A drugs has been sentenced. Police said Jeanette Talbot, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was ...

Progressive “harm reduction” advocates have insisted for decades that active users should take a central role in crafting drug policy. While this belief is profoundly reckless—akin to letting drunk ...

Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. After struggling with addiction for years in February he died of a heroin overdose. "I wake him up the ...

Testing positive for recreational drugs at the time of admission with acute coronary syndrome was associated with increased ...

A controversial program rewards drug users for accepting temporary or permanent birth control, reports The Daily Sentinel, in Colorado. To qualify for the Project Prevention program, women must prove ...

Democratic officials in California have circled back from their coddling of drug addicts and homeless people to the understanding that they can use criminal law as leverage to eliminate the kind of ...