This article first appeared on. In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending ...

Kennedy Jr.'s past after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to be health secretary. Kennedy, who was an ...

Overall, 2025 is likely to feature significant discourse about the future of drug policy, addiction treatment, and harm ...

James Mannion knew what he needed. For nine months, while incarcerated in a county jail in Portland, Maine, he pleaded for a ...

The prevalence of substance use disorders, such as opioid and alcohol use disorders, has created a significant public health ...

Nassau County has received nearly $100 million in opioid settlement funds and spent about $3 million. With a majority of the ...

Jeremy Baker, with Local 27 Carpenters Union, said he was only 16 years old — on his first job — when he saw the effects of opioid addiction in the trades. "The journeyman that was training ...

The $10.2 million in federal funds will help enhance sober-living options for Iowans recovering from opioid addiction.

For four organizations in Boston, new vending machines won’t mean a snack to crunch on but rather access to opioid overdose-reversing medications and other harm reduction supplies.

The ongoing battle saw a 30 percent decrease in drug overdose fatalities in 2024 compared to 2023. That data comes from the ...