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 ...

In a way, it still is. Larry Soper is a residential manager at the Interval Brotherhood Home in Coventry Township, Ohio, where many of the area’s heroin addicts go for residential treatment. It’s a ...

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 ...

Heroin overdose deaths in the U.S. nearly tripled from 2010 to 2013, according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The trend is worrisome — but there might be help in ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. I’d been out shoplifting, and hadn’t been able to find anything to sell ...

Thanks to Steven A. Schroeder for his opinion piece regarding alcoholism and drug addiction (“Grant Makers Must Attack Substance Abuse,” July 26.). This disease has been considered a moral issue for ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The latest figures on heroin show the number of first time users in this country has increased by 60 percent over the last decade to 156,000. Addiction experts say once hooked ...

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 ...

Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his producer wife, Michele, set off waves of tributes and memorials, but for some families, it stopped them cold.