A new Washington state hotline is helping connect people dealing with drug addiction to local treatment options. The ...

PLAINS TWP. – A priest active in the fight against drugs told local clergy members Thursday that they should embrace addicts. The Rev. George Clements founded the One Church-One Addict program in ...

A medication offered to heroin abusers at the Albany County jail was shown to help prevent addicts from returning to illegal drug use, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England ...

Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

University of Massachusetts Medical School scientists developed a smartphone app that may be able to ward off drug cravings in substance abusers. The app, called iHeal, would use both physical and ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. This chapter of my life had begun when I was 15. That was when I met an ...

Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. After struggling with addiction for years in February he died of a heroin overdose. "I wake him up the ...

Live from WYFF 4 studios, Chronicle: State of Addiction was a community event that featured law enforcement and addiction specialists answering viewer questions and discussing issues and solutions ...

KOTA TINGGI, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) has proposed that narcotics addiction rehabilitation centres (PUSPEN) be gazetted as special prisons for drug addicts ...

Share on Pinterest A growing body of evidence suggests that GLP-1 drugs prescribed for obesity and diabetes could also help treat addiction. FreshSplash/Getty Images GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and ...

The toxic empathy of Democratic policies on homelessness and drug use allows homeless drug addicts to slowly kill themselves in the streets and even prevents them from getting the treatment they need ...