Portland police are conducting a weeklong mission targeting public drug use, aiming to help users seek treatment.

Among the drugs most frequently prescribed is Suboxone, which is used to treat addiction to painkillers like OxyContin (what hooked Rush Limbaugh) as well as heroin, and last year doctors wrote ...

Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder—known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...

The comedian who has been open about her addiction and recovery is headlining a fundraiser for Phoenix House, which offers ...

Dating back to at least the late 19th century, a key question has shaped public drug debates: is addiction a disease best addressed through medical care, or is it a crime that deserves punishment?

U.S. Eli Lilly, competing with Denmark's Novo Nordisk over obesity treatments, noted it would be the first in the industry to develop medications for treating drug addiction, including alcohol and ...

LOS ANGELES—America’s drug crisis has many survivors. Jerry Schlesinger, 72, is among the longest tenured. He tried heroin at 15. Today, he has been sober for two years. In between ...

adds to a growing body of work hinting these drugs could help people manage drug and alcohol addiction. In the study, researchers used data from more than 227,000 people in Sweden's patient data ...

As local leaders told Fox News, many of these unhoused individuals have been ravaged by addiction, driven by drugs like fentanyl and xylazine, also known as “tranq.” Vermont itself has seen a ...

As local leaders told Fox News, many of these unhoused individuals have been ravaged by addiction, driven by drugs like fentanyl and xylazine, also known as "tranq." Vermont itself has seen a 500% ...

While Hendershot agrees that the drugs might eventually prove useful in treating addiction, he says it’s too soon to endorse that kind of off-label use. He notes that the new findings were based ...