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

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cory Monteith, Janis Joplin, John Belushi. Philip Seymour Hoffman poses for a tintype (wet collodion) portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by CEG, during the ...

The widow of Tyler Skaggs, faced with evidence of her husband’s illicit drug use, again denied knowing about his opioid habit ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Geoffrey Mutebi relapsed after as US funding freeze made it impossible to access the methadone needed to control his heroin addiction - Sophie Neiman On January 25, as the sun rose over a glistening ...

Families ruined by heroin addiction share their stories. — -- Aaron Smith held up a needle he used to shoot heroin. “More or less this is all you need,” the 22-year-old said. It's what he called ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A new survey of illegal drug users in Ohio found that most of them don’t buy substances directly from so-called drug dealers. Instead, they are frequently using their peers to make ...

WILKES-BARRE – Quietly in 2004 the shift began. Back then the number of people seeking treatment from the Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Drug and Alcohol Program claimed heroin was their drug of ...

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 ...

Our survey has highlighted shifts in the nature of drug use in England, the types of drugs adults take and their dependence ...