AP photographer Ebrahim Noroozi used determination and empathy to gain access to the world of Afghanistan‘s hard-drug street addicts. The result is an unflinching but sensitive photo essay that takes ...

Drug addiction is a chronic, often relapsing disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite successful treatment, many individuals struggle to maintain sobriety and may relapse.

The chair of Scotland's Drug Deaths Taskforce has called for reform of UK drugs legislation to switch the balance from criminalising addicts in favour of a public health approach to reducing ...

To the editor: Your misleading editorial supporting “so-called safe drug consumption sites” asks, “Why do Republican lawmakers want drug users to die in the street?” Wrong. Like others, Senate ...

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 ...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's new plan to combat his city's drug crisis is under fire from critics who claim bribing addicts with incentives to get treatment could make the problem worse. The ...

A new coalition fighting drug addiction is urging President Biden to oppose controversial government-licensed injection sites where junkies can shoot up — and instead provide addicts the recovery ...

Sophie Casalini doesn't remember the 30 minutes she drove with her daughter on I-465 nearly two years ago. She remembers injecting the heroin down the street from her dealer’s house. She remembers ...

This export industry is evolving. Drug experts say heroin is back on the rise, fueled in part by prescription drug abuse. And while the supply side of the business may change, the demand remains ...

That is the ultimate addiction blame. Just take a moment to let that notion sink in – telling opiate addicts that their lives are not worth an EMT trip or a life-saving injection – and imagine how ...