SAFER PRESCRIPTION Pot’s pain-reducing properties could help address maladies that lead to opioid addiction. (Photo by NMK-Studio, Shutterstock) Despite a relative lack of scientific studies of ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students from the Center for Public Safety Initiatives hope visitors to this year’s Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6 will take a minute to ...

It’s being called an epidemic with tragic consequences. An alarming number of teens and young adults in the Puget Sound area are going from prescription pain killers to heroin as their drug of choice.

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Studies show that ibogaine can be effective for short-term opioid addiction treatment, especially reducing drug cravings and some withdrawal symptoms.

A South Dakota city, like many across the nation, is grappling with the opioid crisis. See how community support is saving ...

Their addiction brought them together in a central Virginia jail late last year. — -- Every night before she goes to sleep, Deborah Crowder prays that her two daughters are still alive when she ...

There is a hidden drug problem in Bay Ridge that state Sen. Marty Golden is trying to shed a light on. More than a dozen young people under the age of 21 have died of heroin overdoses in southern ...

Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo (left) and Mayor Miro Weinberger Credit: File: Terri Hallenbeck Mayor Miro Weinberger and Police Chief Brandon del Pozo say the Queen City needs a better ...

This relationship to food is increasingly common in our society, and represents a systemic issue rather than an individual problem. Fast forward: our teenager is now 23 years old, strung out on heroin ...