Dr. Stephen Loyd, who has been treating patients with substance use disorder since he got sober two decades ago, says ...

In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond weight loss, a new study finds the medications ...

After struggling for three years to get off prescription opioids ... There’s no room for mood- and mind-altering drugs in recovery.’” Suboxone contains an opioid called buprenorphine.

Two-thirds of incarcerated Americans are struggling with substance abuse, in many cases opioid addiction. New research finds ...

Opioid use disorder can be a contributing factor to Americans landing in the nation's prisons and jails, but those inmates ...

By "God's medicine," Hubbard means the psychedelic drug ibogaine. Specifically, he was interested in its potential ability to rid people of addiction to opioids and other habit-forming substances.

Panelists at the Drug Abuse Foundation of Palm Beach County discussed how race altered the nation's responses to the crack ...

Naloxone distribution containers have been proliferating across the country in the more than a year since the U.S. Food and ...

Tactics used to persuade U.S. doctors that potent painkillers could be safely prescribed have been used abroad, an ...

Opioid overdose deaths are declining in Jefferson County for the first time in nearly a decade. But County Health Officer David Hicks warned that another, more dangerous class of drugs could have ...

William Cope Moyers has written a new memoir, “Broken Open: What Painkillers Taught Me About Life and Recovery.” (Caroline Yang/The New York Times) ...