Weeks before disgraced financial planner and gambling addict Anthony Del Vecchio’s crime spree was exposed, he was celebrating with two of his victims at a wedding. The 32-year-old fraudster told ...

Access to naloxone, or Narcan, has decreased overdose deaths in Kentucky. But Kentucky's rates of substance use disorder and overdose remain high. Naloxone, in this photo available at the Louisville ...

A former inmate and Tennessee sheriff collaborate on addiction recovery programs. Shawn Baker and Sheriff Tim Eads aim to provide resources inside Dickson County Jail. Their vision includes inmates ...

Kenny Sanders, 38, from Canterbury, Kent, posed as a successful businessman but was secretly a hopeless gambling addict who blew his victims' life savings on all-day betting binges.

A recovering addict conducted multiple store thefts in a bid to pay for hotel stays. Adam Carroll claimed the thefts would help fund stays to ensure he was kept away from fellow users at Leicester's ...

The Knoxville City Council election and sales tax increase referendum is Nov. 4. Early voting is open Oct. 15-30. The election process is different this year. Candidates only have to win the approval ...

The Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction (which oversees Recovery Alberta and is separate from the ministry that doles out the funding) told CBC News there have been no changes in operational ...

“I’d accepted that I was going to die from alcoholism. I left that job after four months in the summer of 2023 and got a credit card and went completely crazy. I don’t remember a lot of it, to be ...

A woman who became an alcoholic as a teenager says her secret drinking habit spiralled into a full-blown addiction – with a bottle of vodka a day leaving her close to death. Lacey Davis, from ...

Addiction science is increasingly looking beyond clinics to technologies we already wear on our wrists. A recent trial suggests that wearables, better known for counting steps or tracking sleep, may ...

Passed unanimously before the shutdown, the Support Act is considered a cornerstone of the federal response to the opioid and fentanyl crisis, with Sen. Maggie Hassan meeting frontline workers to ...

Expanded use of Sublocade, an injection that suppresses opioid cravings for a month, has in particular made it easier for people to stay in recovery, eliminating the need to obtain a new dose every ...