The opioid epidemic has highlighted the importance of peer recovery coaches, but their jobs are now at risk due to proposed ...

Family and friends celebrated the life of 18-year-old Tyler Herron Friday night. The young man died one year ago as a result of the demons of heroin.

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 ...

Addiction is so pernicious that even expensive rehab clinics have high relapse rates. But “The Breakthrough Group,” a new ...

A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to more serious opioids like heroin and fentanyl, being dispensed at the Alameda Health System Bridge Clinic in Oakland, Calif ...

Provider Training in Care, which helps people like Mr Burns into the sector, said giving them second chances could help ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction and recovery at a conference on drug addiction in Tennessee.

He suggested that cellphones are a pernicious influence on young people and that banning them in schools could help decrease drug addiction.