At this time 30 years ago, we found ourselves in the midst of one of the worst public health crises in U.S. history, one that killed tens of thousands of people a year. Somehow today, we find ...

For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it has operated on a simple premise: Addiction medicine’s objective is to help people using drugs stop — completely ...

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A new preclinical study by UB researchers reveals the genetic basis of relapse, one of the most detrimental but poorly understood behaviors related to addiction. Craig Werner, is first author on a ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Kelly trudged through southwest Baltimore, each labored footstep a reminder of the roofing accident that left him with chronic pain and a raging opioid addiction several years ...

Over the last decade, opioid use in the United States and Tennessee has rapidly increased, causing an alarming number of babies born with NAS – Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, a set of withdrawal ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Reeling from drug overdose deaths and scenes of people smoking fentanyl on sidewalks, San Francisco moved closer Thursday to adopting a “recovery first” drug policy that sets ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Kelly trudged through southwest Baltimore, each labored footstep a reminder of the roofing accident that left him with chronic pain and a raging opioid addiction several years ...

FILE - Supervisor Matt Dorsey is shown during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Reeling from drug ...