Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

DETROIT — As Hannah Meissner hands sterile needles, fentanyl test strips and peanut butter sandwiches to drug users inside a mobile outreach van, she fears her job helping them stay alive — and break ...

Henry Mackley from Ludlow says his "self-medication" with alcohol spiralled after Covid-19 and nearly killed him.

The new requirement would cover dozens of medications: antipsychotics, stimulants, antidepressants, narcotics and ...

A coalition of addiction experts said more than 300 physicians, harm reduction workers and researchers signed a letter delivered to Congress late on Monday warning of "dire consequences" if the U.S.

Joy Behar ruffled her costars' feathers on the Wednesday, September 10, episode of The View. On the latest installment, the ...