Mercedes Pagan spent 13 years, nearly a third of her life, seeking treatment for her addiction to cocaine. She tried detoxing four times at inpatient facilities but each time she was quickly ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a measure authorizing billions of dollars in federal funding to help prevent drug overdoses and aid patients recovering from addiction, according to ...

A harm reduction vending machine in Asbury Park provides free supplies like syringes and Narcan to drug users. The machine aims to prevent overdoses and reduce the spread of diseases like HIV and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - For those struggling with mental health or addiction concerns, an organization that provides peer support has free help for your path to recovery. After a serious struggle with ...

Pot is quickly becoming America's drug of choice, on track to replace alcohol, but its harms are becoming clear as well.

This June, approximately 150 motorcycles will thunder down Route 9W in Saugerties, New York, for Ryan’s Ride for Recovery. Organized by Vince Kelder and his family, the barbecue and raffle will raise ...

In July 2024, Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary designee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., participated in a virtual event in which he briefly outlined his plan to address the country’s opioid ...

DETROIT — As Hannah Meissner hands sterile needles, fentanyl test strips and peanut butter sandwiches to drug users inside a mobile outreach van, she fears her job helping them stay alive — and break ...

The deaths of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his producer wife, Michele, set off waves of tributes and memorials, but for some families, it stopped them cold. Nick Reiner, the couple’s 32-year-old ...

The blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on drinking, new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry suggests. In a study of around 228,000 people in Sweden who had ...