President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction.

Trump is signing an order launching the Great American Recovery Initiative to coordinate the federal response to addiction.

A year prior, the Biden administration gave different reasons for the start of the overdose deaths decline, describing its work to distribute more of the opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone, ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks responsible for creative thinking. The findings indicate that the brains ...

A mom was a decade-long heroin addict, spending nearly $680 on the substance per week — but she kicked the habit once she hit rock bottom. When Shannon Ashley was 13, she tried heroin to “show off” in ...

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geoffrey Mutebi relapsed after as US funding freeze made it impossible to access the methadone needed to control his heroin ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent warning about tianeptine—a substance marketed as a dietary supplement but known on the street as "gas station heroin." But what exactly ...

GLP-1s are being studied as ways to help those with addictive tendencies curb those habits.