As with drug addiction, education, cognitive therapies, counseling, self-help strategies, and, potentially, anti-craving medications like naltrexone and GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may help.

A poison and drug center in New Mexico is the only one nationwide to offer addiction support for substance abuse.

Narcotics Anonymous and Salvation Army are often hostile to use of the addiction medications buprenorphine and methadone.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Cartagena, Colombia on the international convention of Narcotics Anonymous, a 12-Step Program for recovering drug addicts. About 15-hundred members of NA, mostly ...

The 10th annual Opioid Symposium featured three people's experiences with drug addiction and Hall of Famer Larry Little whose brother abused drugs.

Homelessness, drug addiction drive public safety concerns in Vermont’s largest — and lefty — city: ‘I don’t walk at night’ ...

STAT's '3 to Watch' series looks at addiction policy: Future of supervised consumption, use of addiction medications, buprenorphine access via telehealth.

If Trump Cares So Much About Fentanyl, Why Is He Cutting Addiction Treatment Funding? Punishing China and Mexico via tariffs won’t solve the country’s drug problems.

LOS ANGELES—America’s drug crisis has many survivors. Jerry Schlesinger, 72, is among the longest tenured. He tried heroin at 15. Today, he has been sober for two years. In between, decades of ...

He called drug addiction “an anchor to the street.” The UCSF study found 42% of homeless people who had used drugs did so before they became homeless, and 23% began using regularly afterwards.

Dear Annie: I’ve been married to a wonderful man for over 10 years, and during that time, I’ve grown to love his son as my own. My stepson, “Brian,” is now 28 and has struggled with drug ...