Traditional addiction treatments have their uses, but some recovery centers have found that more holistic approaches may be more suitable for some patients ...

Struggling with substance abuse can feel overwhelming, affecting your physical health, mental wellbeing, and relationships.

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

Ibogaine is a plant-derived psychedelic medication that is illegal in the U.S. and many other countries. It causes hallucinations that can last more than 24 hours and cause cardiac problems. Studies ...

The observance of World Drug Day is a reminder that substance-use disorders affect real people and that no community is ...

The U.S. will begin to test kratom for its potential to treat opioid disorder. In California, a complaint targets a business ...

Mary started drinking regularly in the early nineties, when she was thirteen. Her father had recently married a Danish woman and moved the family to Denmark, which has one of the highest teen-drinking ...

Despite a push to expand medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction, wait times in L.A. County jails are leading to ...

For years, threats of closure have loomed over the supervised drug consumption site at the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre.