Americans may not say it aloud, but drug addiction has long been considered a moral failing. "Just say no," as Nancy Reagan famously declared during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80s. That ...

Dr. Sandra Gibney stood at East Ninth and Bennett streets in Wilmington, a drug test strip in hand. Flanked on both sides by local users, she pointed to the back of the strip’s packaging, which had ...

After rising exponentially since 1979, overdose rates have finally begun to decline, falling more than 29 percent since 2022.

You're reading Part 4 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...