Public drug use is set to spike in Ottawa, representatives from the city's two last supervised drug consumption sites are ...

Young adults may suffer strokes when using cocaine, meth, and even cannabis, and the onset may be shortly after drug use and is directly linked to these drugs.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The latest figures on heroin show the number of first time users in this country has increased by 60 percent over the last decade to 156,000. Addiction experts say once hooked ...

The number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade, with the bulk of the increase among whites, according to a new government report. Experts think the increase was driven by ...

The Supreme Court is set to convene Monday to hear a Second Amendment dispute over a federal law that bars unlawful drug ...

The number of adults in the United States who reported using heroin at some point in their lives increased by approximately fivefold over the span of a decade, according to a new analysis of two ...

The past few years have seen an explosion of heroin abuse and deaths from opiate overdose. But little is known about the molecular underpinnings of heroin addiction. A new study in Biological ...

New evidence suggests that brief (4-session) motivational interviewing can reduce drug use and increase HIV prevention uptake ...

As part of an effort to reduce fentanyl overdoses among heroin users in New York City, Van Asher, the data manager at St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a needle exchange program in the Bronx, has ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday in United States v. Hemani, the second gun-rights case of the 2025-26 ...

Detoxing off heroin or opioids without medication is sheer hell. I should know. For many users, full-blown withdrawal is often foreshadowed by a yawn, or perhaps a runny nose, a sore back, sensitive ...