A $56 million grant to train emergency responders and supply them with the overdose reversal spray, plus other programs that ...

MANY people in local communities turn to specific illicit drugs because they enjoy the feelings these substances induce. For ...

In a speech in Nashville, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his policy perspectives are influenced by the 14-year heroin ...

New research reveals that the enzyme HDAC5 plays a critical role in suppressing a gene (Scn4b) that regulates brain activity associated with drug-related memories, which are central to relapse in ...

Research on the biological basis of addiction has found that the critical epigenetic enzyme histone deacetylase 5 (HDAC5) limits the expression of the gene Scn4b, regulating neuronal activity and ...

Health experts and law enforcement officials say concerns are growing as methamphetamine overdoses surge in Maine.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction and recovery ...

SAMHSA’s work is crucial to suicide and drug overdose prevention and mental health care. It may fall victim to changes to public health infrastructure.

The family announced the cause of death as cardiac arrest caused by the effects of ... a substance abuse charity, to help raise awareness and tackle stigma around drug use. According to UK ...

In all, the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid will cut 20,000 positions, half of them through layoffs. The total is ...