Drug Addiction

A gender-targeted approach to harm reduction and drug treatment could help close the gaps between how male and female drug users can work toward recovery.

New research finds that an empowering message, emphasizing a person's potential to manage addictions, is much more helpful.

The Senate confirmed the president's picks to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Census Bureau.

A study shows that people feel differently about "overdose prevention sites" and "safe consumption sites."

Normally trade groups lobby for less government oversight, but not in this case.

The police chief of Chatham, New York, has a revolutionary strategy for policing the opioid epidemic.

Using drugs at a young age can permanently modify your brain chemistry, but researchers are working to change that.

While many cities cluster health services, and have hotspots for certain kinds of drug use, Boston's "Methadone Mile" is unique in that, here, the two clusters overlap.

People attend a candlelight vigil for victims of drug addiction on August 24th, 2017, in the borough of Staten Island in New York City.

That's what some Washington elite are hoping.

Methadone could have saved David Stojcevski, who died on the floor of his jail cell last year.

New research finds a racial disparity.

As drug courts spread across the world, new standards and best practices aim to hold them all accountable.

New research suggests that maintaining methadone treatment in jails and prisons would save lives.

More rural EMTs need to be able to give out the overdose-reversing medicine when they go out on calls.

Community courts across the country are fighting judicial backlog and lowering re-arrest rates.

As states crack down hard on pain prescriptions, some are seeing a resurgence in abuse of the harder stuff.

New legislation in Tennessee has implications much wider than the use of illegal drugs by pregnant mothers-to-be.

Stories from the 25th anniversary celebration of the nation’s first drug court.

Seattle’s version of the 7 Up series reveals the long-term damage to adults who were in gangs as kids.