The number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade, with the bulk of the increase among whites, according to a new government report. Experts think the increase was driven by ...
The Hechinger Report reports Fort Kent, Maine, launches a recovery high school to combat rising youth overdoses, prioritizing ...
Drug abuse and drug crimes continue to decline across the state of Washington, with one exception. Heroin addiction and overdose deaths are on the rise, according to new research from the University ...
The inquiry was ordered after advocate Abhishek Malhotra submitted a detailed complaint to the health authorities, raising ...
About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data.
FILE - Students walk the halls at a high school in Philadelphia on Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) (Matt Slocum, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All ...
In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...
About 100 people — mostly local drug addicts — gathered at a pagoda in Phnom Penh in mid-February. A few drug users had brought their families for support, and they sat together on woven mats before a ...
Cara Delevingne has spoken openly about her struggles with addiction during a recent podcast. The 33-year-old supermodel also ...
Athletes, actors, politicians, and others often develop substance abuse disorders and some die from drug-related deaths. At the same time, their life history, drug use, and risk-taking shows the rest ...