A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...

Naloxone, the drug typically used to stop an opioid overdose, only works for about 30 minutes. That means it often needs to ...

Jails may seem secure, but people who run them have a very hard time keeping drugs out. Those drugs often lead to overdoses.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, and it addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 9.9 million ...

Indivior is halting Opvee promotion after a New York settlement. Critics say the overdose drug is overpriced, risky, and no ...

Every other state, including those receiving hundreds of millions less than Mississippi, has allocated at least $3 million to ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

The Board of State and Community Corrections, which administers Proposition 47 grants, has proposed allowing those funds to ...

Join the first national Save a Life Day. Discover how naloxone distribution is crucial in combating opioid addiction.

A man standing up from a wheelchair prepares to inject himself with a needle on Southampton Street in the Mass. and Cass area of Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The debate over how to deal with ...