Drug prohibition hasn't worked. Illicit opioids continue to kill thousands of Americans each year, and the problem grows ...

A medication offered to heroin abusers at the Albany County jail was shown to help prevent addicts from returning to illegal drug use, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England ...

A potential drug-abuse therapy opportunity squandered. State lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance-use disorder bill ...

Since 2021, New Yorkers have been rightly puzzled by OnPoint NYC, the “safe injection” sites where hard-drug addicts shoot up under medical supervision. After all, drugs like fentanyl and heroin are ...

Edinburgh's Health and Social Care Partnership has opened a public consultation on its plans to establish a “safer drug consumption facility” in the heart of the city and Capital residents have until ...

Bobby Tolbert is a slender, soft-spoken man with a wide smile and an understated elegance. He remembers when he began shooting heroin as a teenager in the 1960s. "When I was coming up," he shakes his ...