Drugs now kill three times as many people each year as die in road accidents. Last year, 5,448 people in England and Wales ...

Contrary to common belief, many people abuse multiple substances, like alcohol and drugs. The abuse of multiple drugs makes ...

In his new book 'The Last Kilo," T.J. English lays out how a group of Cuban immigrants called Los Muchachos brought the ...

A study using Swedish patient data found anti-obesity drugs were linked with fewer hospitalizations related to alcohol use, ...

Sean William Wollard allegedly told police in Florida he "turned on a movie and did some cocaine" before accidentally ...

Patients are initially held for 120 hours, or five days, and a court can decide to hold them for another 14 days, then ...

A recent study by North Carolina State University exposes a critical shortfall in opioid treatment availability within the state's residential facilities.

KXAN’s Jose Torres shares the story of 43-year-old Eric Bumpus, husband and father of two. Bumpus reflects on five years of living with an addiction to pain pills. He shared when he was on pain meds ...

A Hudson Valley man is facing drug charges after a months-long investigation into narcotics sales. Richard Fernandez, age 40, ...

Substance use disorders are notoriously difficult to treat, as it is challenging to intervene in a drugs' effect on the brain ...

A total of 16,507 people were recorded on the Drug and Alcohol Information System accessing specialist treatment.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that a treatment empire keeps going, even as state regulators accuse operators of endangering ...