As the 11th conference of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control approaches, experts debate how to respond to an expanding industry. Faith McLellan reports.

L.A. will spend $2 million fencing MacArthur Park. Critics say it will just hide homelessness and addiction issues in the ...

The city of Birmingham is taking action to help combat the growing opioid epidemic, investing $1.5 million in local programs. These programs are designed to prevent addiction, save lives and support ...

During the height of its heroin crisis in the 1980s, the Netherlands chose a “third way” to respond to drug use — neither punishment nor abstinence, but harm reduction. Today, that approach has helped ...

Militarization is making it harder for healthcare workers to reach people who use drugs. An older man receives a heroin ...

When the Narcan didn’t work I ran to the shelter to ask for help.” We put an oxygen mask on the patient and used a bag-valve-mask device to breathe for him. His color returned, and very shortly after ...

By meeting individuals where they are—both geograph­ically and emotionally—the Mobile Recovery Program offers a model of ...

Substance use is associated with a wide range of harms to young people’s physical health, mental wellbeing, and social development. Early and frequent use ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN -- Branded Legacy, Inc. (OTC:BLEG), a leader in innovative addiction ...

A local organization is among those benefiting from more than $9.6 million in New York State Opioid Settlement Fund being released by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports ...

City health leaders detailed protocols after three mass overdoses since July and defended a harm-reduction approach ...

On Oct. 8, around a dozen people gathered for dinner catered by Taste of India at the Prism Center for Queer and Trans Life ...