I had never been in trouble my whole life. Then I got in major trouble,” said Nikki, a 35-year-old woman…
In the United Kingdom, half of surveyed people who inject drugs had been infected with hepatitis C (HCV), and some…
Imagine going on a night out with friends, planning to share some "ecstasy" pills you bought locally. What if you…
Teen cannabis and nicotine vaping spiked between January 2018 and January 2019, a widely-cited US survey on adolescent drug use…
Overdose deaths in Shelby County, Tennessee have increased 62 percent this year compared to the same period in 2018, according…
On International Overdose Awareness Day 2018, Dean LeMire sat in the New Hampshire woods with Jim Wuelfing, pondering a dilemma.…
Imagine a new miracle drug with the potential to prevent one third of fatal cancers, to avoid one in four…
This is the worst phone call of my life. It wakes me before 7 am on the Tuesday after Labor…
The robust public health response to opioid use disorders in the United States is, in part, made possible by the…
A one-size-fits-all approach to the "opioid epidemic" will not work, say researchers at Iowa State University. Co-authors David Peters, Shannon…