At an engaging forum not far from the Capitol, patients, researchers, health care providers and policy makers met to spotlight new ways to combat an ongoing scourge that still ravages millions ...

Nationally, overdose deaths are falling. But not in Arizona. Source: Times analysis of C.D.C. data. Drug deaths in the U.S. increased steadily from the 1980s through the arrival of fentanyl and the ...

Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie ...

Almost every family in America, in one way or another, has suffered from the drug overdose epidemic that takes tens of thousands of lives each year. This epidemic has run rampant for decades, touching ...

Overprescription of painkillers, reliance on alcohol to deal with trauma and genetic predispositions, among other factors, can all result in substance abuse disorders, which impact far too many people ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...