A dozen agencies in Danbury that provide addiction recovery, housing support and drug abuse prevention services will receive ...

Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

Larry Clark reveals new photographs from his iconic 1970s series "Tulsa" that paints a haunting portrait of opioid addiction ...

Drug abusers could no longer be referred to as an “addict” in New York State, according to a proposal tucked into Gov. Kathy ...

Are dropping fentanyl-related death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction?

Opioid misuse causes thousands of deaths each year. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2022, 73,838 people died from synthetic opioid overdoses (other than methadone), and 5,871 ...

A new study published today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared with opioid injecting. The authors, however, ...

Being addicted to something can negatively impact your life, and an upcoming documentary has chosen to focus on the point of ...

Since the opioid epidemic was declared an emergency in 2017, it has claimed more than 450,000 lives, but local drug and ...

In the face of an opioid overdose crisis, President Biden oversaw a historic shift toward harm reduction for addiction.

The new program will see Columbia help distribute up to 500 doses of a medication can reverse an opioid overdose.

ALTON According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, abundant evidence shows that medications such as methadone, ...