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 ...

Substance use and abuse is something that touches every corner of the United States, in areas both big and small. According ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Police departments in some Illinois cities are offering help for heroin addicts instead of arrest. The (Aurora) Beacon-News reports the amnesty programs offer addicts the chance to ...

SELDEN, N.Y. (WABC) -- Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. "I know what I know. He was sensitive. He had a great heart," Lori Carbonaro ...

It was the ultimate hell for single dad Scott Meyers. His teen daughter, Rachel, had progressed from smoking pot to doing every drug imaginable, ultimately spiraling into an inescapable web of heroin ...

Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

The so-called War on Drugs has turned into an endless struggle, crowding prisons with addicts who resume their habits when they’re back on the street. An epidemic of deaths from overdoses of heroin ...

There’s been plenty of talk lately about the heroin epidemic overwhelming the Seattle area and the rest of the nation. But as the debate about what to do rages on, a small group of people in Kent are ...

Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. After struggling with addiction for years in February he died of a heroin overdose. "I wake him up the ...

Members of Hope Ministries and Community Services have long had a vision to create a hub to help drug and alcohol addicts and their families and to educate young children in Lancaster. Wednesday, they ...

TRUMANN, Ark. - It's being called one of the biggest drug busts in the history of northeastern Arkansas: The FBI announced on Tuesday the indictments of 21 people accused of distributing ...