In a strong show of solidarity, youths, including students from various educational institutions in Malwa, have vowed to act ...

When Portugal decided in 2000 to decriminalize personal drug possession, Hakimi Zapata said, "not only did addiction rates fall — overdose deaths fell, HIV/AIDS rates fell, but so did drug use.” ...

This is the first installment of a five-part series on the Drug-Alcohol Coalition of Iredell's recent "In The Know" event.

I lead them in a vision board activity where I talk to them about the physical mark left on the body, the mark left on their mental health, and the mark left on their family and friends through their ...

A rapist wept in court as a judge jailed him for raping a woman as she slept at a Travelodge hotel. James Cox subjected his ...

David Bowie was so high on cocaine that he couldn't remember recording 'Station to Station' and when he listened to it back it felt like a different person.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced ...

The new administration’s decision to fire a tenth of the workers at the federal government agency that oversees mental and ...

Montana lawmakers are grappling with how — if at all — the state should rein in kratom, an unregulated plant-derived ...

The United States has been battling an opioid crisis for decades, marked by three distinct waves of rising overdose deaths.

For more than 30 years — from teenhood into adulthood and raising her children — Deirdre Raczkowski was struggling with substance abuse and cocaine use. In 2023, before she became sober, she said, she ...

The prescription drugs — used to treat anxiety, panic attacks and sleep disorders — play a role in popular TV shows like “The ...