This story is part of The Trip, a CPR News series on Colorado’s new psychedelic movement. Read more here. A psychedelic drug that comes from the iboga shrub in Central Africa is among those ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed details about his past drug addiction during an appearance on Theo Von's podcast, ...

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Homeland Security Today Executive Editor Kristina Tanasichuk sat down to discuss the opioid crisis and some of its causes with Dr. Paul Christo, one of the world’s leading pain specialists and author ...

Bunnie Xo addressed every burning question about her life — from her experience as a sex worker to the abuse she allegedly ...

As weight-loss drugs like Ozempic revolutionize weight loss, scientists hope they may also be life-changing for alcohol addiction. The drugs are one of several approaches doctors and psychiatrists ...

Take a good look around any major urban area– and now, many rural spaces too– and you’ll see signs of drug abuse and addiction. The Baltimore City Department of Health reports that “In 2023, Baltimore ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Drug policy was largely a backburner issue in 2025. Despite the ambitions of some moderate or right-leaning activists, and an apparent passion ...

Anthony Kim, in a social media post celebrating two years of sobriety, says he’d used drugs and alcohol to “numb the pain,” was able to hide it and that “it’s f-ckin hard playing majors making porta ...

Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug.

President Trump's executive order on homelessness aims to make it easier for states and cities to get people into mental health or addiction treatment, even if that means involuntary civil commitment.