With research funding from the government, Marks and his colleague, Dr. Russell Newcombe, began investigating the effects of ...

Families ruined by heroin addiction share their stories. — -- Aaron Smith held up a needle he used to shoot heroin. “More or less this is all you need,” the 22-year-old said. It's what he called ...

A mom was a decade-long heroin addict, spending nearly $680 on the substance per week — but she kicked the habit once she hit rock bottom. When Shannon Ashley was 13, she tried heroin to “show off” in ...

A mum kicked her £500-a-week decade-long heroin addiction after getting hooked on the drug when trying it to “show off” in front of her sister. Shannon Ashley, 30, tried heroin at aged 13 and ...

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...

Experts call for rehabilitation instead of jail time for people with addiction. Drug and alcohol-related jail deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, according to a recent report from the Bureau of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana remains at record lows, according to national survey results released Wednesday. They consume a lot of energy drinks, though. And there are ...

District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s “recovery first” ordinance advanced to the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today after a 3-0 vote at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. But ...

In a speech at the Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his policy perspectives are influenced by the 14-year heroin addiction ...

More than 60 per cent of drug users in the country take drugs for the first time before the age of 18. Peer influence plays a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Until we stop framing all drug use and every overdose as problems of “addiction” and “substance use disorders,” we ...