Inside the massive dining room at San Patrignano, windowed walls overlook northern Italy's rambling hillsides. Taking in the arresting view is a 20-year-old from Detroit. Sometimes Michael is ...

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The president wants to enforce involuntary commitment laws for severe drug use. But rehab is expensive, without enough beds for those who seek it. By Jan Hoffman The sight is increasingly common: ...

Journalist Shoshana Walter investigates how drug addiction programs exploit vulnerable patients. In her new book, Shoshana Walter interrogates America’s drug treatment system by following four people ...

Three dozen people filtered into that room at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Small conversations here and there, but mostly quiet whispers while people moved to sit down in rows of blue-cushiond wooden ...

Memorial Day is an apt time to reflect on the long-term consequences of war. Among them are substance use, mental health problems, homelessness and jail time for those who served in the military.

The country’s church-run addiction centers are so effective that communist officials are taking notice. In March 2013, the government-run drug rehab center in Hanoi released Hung Quang Pham early.