It's a cold winter night in Patterson, New Jersey. There's still snow on the ground from the latest storm, and on a corner, under the neon lights of a liquor store, a group of people are gathered.

Currently, traditional opioid treatments include a range of behavioral psychotherapies, medication-assisted treatment (MAT using methadone, buprenorphine and the likes) and a range of specialty care ...

Jeff Allison dreamed a year ago of leaping quickly from first-round draft choice for the Florida Marlins to National League All-Star. Instead, he sank sadly from a prescription drug addiction to a ...

A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years. A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off ...

The experiences of a young adult taking the drug Vicodin after a wisdom tooth operation and of another person injecting heroin into their blood stream may appear like drastically different scenarios.

Project HOPE, a part of the Alaska Department of Health, held its monthly naloxone training. Although attendance was a bit slow, they still made an effort to train those who came by. Tim Easterly, one ...

University of Vermont Medical Center doctors have dramatically reduced the amount of opiates they prescribe, the hospital announced Thursday. In the third quarter of 2018, physicians issued 44 percent ...

In Vermont, more than 100 people die every year from opiate overdoses. Hundreds of people in Chittenden County suffer non-fatal opiate overdoses every year. Public consumption of drugs continues to ...

But some plant-based medicines are helping people detox from opiates and kick their addiction. One of them is Ibogaine and another is Kratom. At the end of 2018, Thailand, like many other countries ...