New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...

NAMI Southwest Iowa recently received a financial boost from the state to expand community and jail-based support services.

Across neuroscience, biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how pain is measured, understood and treated to support safer, more ...

For 14 years, Lora Romney has had a burning sensation on the top half of her face. The feeling, she says, is similar to a ...

Cherokee Nation leaders are set to propose a plan to invest $4 million in opioid settlement funds to create transitional living housing for formerly incarcerated citizens.

Expanded harm reduction efforts and the declining prevalence of fentanyl are fueling the trend, officials say.

This article appears in the March 2026 print edition with the headline “How America Got So Sick.” ...

For the third year in a row, drug overdose deaths have dropped significantly in Maine. According to preliminary data from the University of Maine, 390 Mainers died from drug overdoses last year.

Over time, atTAcK Addiction moved from renting properties to owning them. At its peak, the organization owned five recovery homes across Delaware. Recently, two of those homes were transferred to ...

Facebook, Google and other tech giants for more than a decade have rejected allegations that they build products deliberately ...

Small communities are struggling to manage the wave of animal-tranquillizer-laced street drugs that has washed across B.C. — ...

A new $100 million pilot program will support people who are homeless and struggling with addiction or mental illness.