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

Fernandes says that people who become addicted to their phones can experience withdrawal symptoms when they try to reduce ...

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

SHUFFLING along a scruffy pavement lined by dilapidated buildings, a lone dealer emerges from a drug den where addicts shoot ...

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

A colleague of mine was treating a gaming addict and he came in for in-patient rehab which meant he was completely cut off,” ...

Now a third option is available after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ ...

It is a daily occurrence in a neighborhood with the dubious distinction of being New York City’s “hub of heroin.” It’s a bustling, sometimes ...

Kennedy spoke at length about how his heroin addiction helped him in his school ... realizing he had a problem'' with drugs. Kennedy admitted himself to a drug treatment center in New Jersey ...

While we are making significant progress in confronting and mitigating the problem, opioid trafficking and addiction continues ... which has replaced heroin as the opioid of choice, is considered ...

Kennedy wants to create "wellness drug rehabilitation farms." But the U.S. tried it before, and it didn't work.

A psychiatrist from Washington University School of Medicine explains the difference between being addicted to a substance ...