President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a measure authorizing billions of dollars in federal funding to help prevent ...

Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.

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 ...

In a way, it still is. Larry Soper is a residential manager at the Interval Brotherhood Home in Coventry Township, Ohio, where many of the area’s heroin addicts go for residential treatment. It’s a ...

Hinds Behavioral Health Services was a turning point for one former addict who wants others to know starting over is possible ...

Heroin addiction can severely impact a person’s life and the lives of their friends and family. A person experiencing heroin addiction may not wish to discuss the fact that they take heroin with ...

A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his ...

When people who use illegal drugs feel like they have to hide their use, the risk of overdose and death soars.

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 ...

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”. I’d been out shoplifting, and hadn’t been able to find anything to sell ...