A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...

starting off with pill addiction for at least 5 years before she got on heroin. My mother was in denial. I tried telling her for years she had a serious problem. She's used crack, cocaine ...

Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to blunt ...

I was incredibly skeptical at first. My natural and immediate reaction was of course that heroin can’t possibly be a Lake Minnetonka problem, this kind of drug is only for the inner ...

Three area sheriffs are concerned about the increased abuse of heroin in the metro area. On April 12, Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, Ramsey County Sheriff Matt Bostrom and Anoka County ...

Before RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearings, Caroline Kennedy urged lawmakers to reject nomination saying he's led family 'down ...

Drug problems are especially linked ... followed by a rise since 2010 in addiction and overdose deaths from the illicit opiate heroin. At the same time, the profile of heroin users changed as ...

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain ... 3.8 percent of American adults abuse opioids each year. Heroin is a drug that comes from a flower, the opium poppy, which usually grows in ...

Experts don’t consider it to be addiction, which ... when the main problem was painkillers and then heroin, and babies showed classic withdrawal symptoms. Now more babies have been exposed ...