Barimah, the Deputy Director General in Charge of Enforcement, Control and Elimination, Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), says the commission will pursue illicit drug traffickers through every ...

Fifty years of outstanding neuroscience research studies have revealed many secrets of how drugs of abuse affect and change ...

Staff and budget cuts will result in fewer services for people fighting mental illness and addiction, including Narcan ...

The latest 12-month report from the CDC showed 1,400 more deaths in January of this year compared with the year prior. This ...

Drug overdoses are increasing for the first time in years and health experts are trying to figure out why - Street drug ...

Why does the U.S. persist in treating addiction like a moral failing? This program treats addiction like the chronic disease ...

FN Media Group News Commentary - The market for abuse-deterrent opioids is still developing, but it's estimated that replacing extended-release opioids with abuse-deterrent formulations could lead to ...

More than 50% of Philly residents have family or friends struggling with substance abuse. One in three know someone who died ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 ...