A former heroin addict has welcomed the opening of a new £3.7m substance support service. The New Start Drug and Alcohol ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...

Those numbers show an increase in usage at what seems like a staggering rate, but the totals are all still very, very tiny. Maine has the highest treatment admission rate for heroin, according to a ...

More children in England are in drug and alcohol treatment, but families say many cannot get help.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young ...

A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the destructive. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as ...

Is Häagen-Dazs ice cream as addictive as heroin? Or, put another way, is heroin as addictive as Häagen-Dazs? Depending on how you phrase the question, you’re either asking whether heroin addiction is ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was addicted to heroin between his teenage and early adulthood years. Rating: True (About this rating?) As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared for his first Senate confirmation ...

Bangladesh is facing a mounting drug crisis, with an estimated 82 lakh people – nearly five per cent of the population – ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte From laboratory models to small human trials, a new review explores whether popular metabolic drugs could ...