Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday touted a new $100 million effort to fight opioid addiction highlighting the country’s “fragmented” system for ...

Can Baltimore beat heroin with $580M?

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Heroin and narcotics pain medications were among the leading drugs that killed people in Portland and surrounding counties in 2001, health experts say. Now there's new optimism in ...

Adolescents in the US face significant barriers to accessing effective drug treatment, with only 31% of children ages 12-17 ...

Jacob Gibson, 32, of Westminster spent 623 days working to become free of drug addiction. On Wednesday, he celebrated his success with a room full of Carroll County officials. “There were definitely ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A Trump Administration preliminary budget proposal suggests plans to cut about two dozen substance abuse prevention and treatment programs. FOX 13 News spoke with a criminal justice ...

Readers respond to Nicholas Kristof’s column about his friend’s struggle with addiction. To the Editor: Re “The Prison Sentence That Saved My Friend’s Life,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Feb. 9): My ...

The city said 100 people lost welfare benefits for not complying with treatment last year, although flexible requirements make it hard to assess how many people have stopped doing drugs as a result.