Can marijuana really be addictive? Despite decades of popular belief to the contrary, addiction specialists warn that the ...

A more timely indicator of overdoses — nonfatal suspected overdose patients in hospital emergency departments — was down 7% this year through August compared with 2024, according to a recent Stateline ...

If we're measuring the success of harm reduction by a reduction in the number of people abusing drugs, then sure, they aren't ...

But the number of people who died of drug overdoses in North Carolina fell by 35% between April 2024 and April 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state saw among ...

But “cannabis is definitely something that someone can develop an addiction to,” said Das, an addiction psychiatrist at ...

Harm reduction programs like syringe exchanges and access to naloxone can combat rural opioid crisis, but moral biases, ...

The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which ...

Nashville's public health director stocked Nashville vending machines with free naloxone, the opioid antidote, in hopes of saving lives.

An oral version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, failed to slow the progression ...

Many think it's a dangerous ploy by the tobacco industry. But some say, with millions of deaths each year attributed to ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising link between how our body processes sugar and how alcohol affects us. This new ...