Maryland lawmakers are considering legislation that would charge fentanyl and heroin dealers with murder when the user suffers a fatal overdose.

A key part of California's Proposition 36 promised to direct people convicted of certain drug crimes to treatment. Counties ...

In March 2023, Norcross and a bipartisan group in Congress introduced the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access bill, which ...

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

A binding rule published in the final days of the Biden administration changes the way providers prescribe medications for ...

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

At issue as whether Harry came clean to immigration officials about his cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms use, as ...

On January 17, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly published two final ...

New Freedom works with recently released prison inmates, and its founders initially projected $900K in monthly profits, ...

Health Canada plays a critical role in supporting Canadian law and border enforcement in their activities to counter the global synthetic drug threat and is taking concrete action to keep communities ...

Regulators have approved the drug as a treatment for weight loss, Type 2 diabetes and lowering the ... [+] risk of heart attacks and strokes. The FDA said Ozempic can be used to reduce the risk of ...