25% of Americans (70 million people) admitted they use illicit drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use. 48.7 million people nationwide struggle with substance abuse according ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — WalletHub released its recent study on drug use by state, ranking the states on where drug abuse is the worst. According to the WalletHub study, there were mover 80,670 drug ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In late 2016, Steven Klein realized that he’d lost control over his drinking and stimulant use. He became sober ...

Katelyn Fullbright on the day she graduated from Women in Recovery.Credit...Barrett Emke for The New York Times Supported by By Nicholas Kristof Photographs by Barrett Emke Mr. Kristof is an Opinion ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is the second in a series exploring the influence of drug cartels in South Dakota, on and off the state’s reservations. The first story can be found at this link. For months, ...

"It's a good thing that the Orphan Cures Act was added to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act," writes health policy expert Sally Pipes. "But it would be better had the legislation not been necessary in ...

Fentanyl arrived right on time for Stephanie Taylor. “My tolerance was so high, it was taking more and more (heroin) to get my fix, to get me to that feel-good feeling I was searching for,” she said.

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 ...