A controversial program rewards drug users for accepting temporary or permanent birth control, reports The Daily Sentinel, in Colorado. To qualify for the Project Prevention program, women must prove ...

Thanks to Steven A. Schroeder for his opinion piece regarding alcoholism and drug addiction (“Grant Makers Must Attack Substance Abuse,” July 26.). This disease has been considered a moral issue for ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is promoting abstinence and 12-step addiction treatment programs that he says helped him recover from heroin use.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago police program aimed at keeping people addicted to drugs out of jail is being expanded because it's working so well. Donald Davis is a heroin addict, but with the help of ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (KGO) — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has vowed to take on the city’s drug crisis in an effort to build a better Bay Area. Nearly 200 people have died this year from ...

Substance use and abuse is something that touches every corner of the United States, in areas both big and small. According to national survey data, 47.7 million Americans aged 12 and older were ...

NASHA MUKT ABHIYAN Drug abuse remains one of the most pressing social challenges of our time. Almost every day, we hear tragic stories of young lives lost to overdoses ...