Geoffrey Mutebi relapsed after as US funding freeze made it impossible to access the methadone needed to control his heroin addiction - Sophie Neiman On January 25, as the sun rose over a glistening ...

Many surgeons recommend giving up smoking, alcohol, or drugs before surgery, but researchers have found this may also ...

Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative, and if used by humans, it causes almost instant blackouts and life-threatening ...

This is part of a series of stories about the fentanyl crisis in Stanislaus County. The New Hope Recovery House in Modesto used to treat heroin addicts, including people who first got hooked on ...

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for ...

Emergency departments across the Pittsburgh region are reporting a growing number of patients experiencing severe and ...

Families ruined by heroin addiction share their stories. — -- Aaron Smith held up a needle he used to shoot heroin. “More or less this is all you need,” the 22-year-old said. It's what he called ...

It’s similar to xylazine, or tranq — a veterinary painkiller and muscle relaxant commonly cut into street drugs since about ...

Heroin, or opiate, withdrawal is the gold standard of addiction withdrawal. Imagine the worst flu of your life and then imagine knowing that taking a hit of this stuff will make it all better. Think ...

Heroin addiction can severely impact a person’s life and the lives of their friends and family. A person experiencing heroin addiction may not wish to discuss the fact that they take heroin with ...

Florida became the 11th state to ban the unapproved drug tianeptine last Thursday by temporarily making it a Schedule I drug as it works toward permanently banning the drug. Tianeptine is often ...

When filmmaker Aaron Strand, originally from Athens, asked his mother-in-law to borrow her rental property between tenants to shoot his independent film, she didn’t know he would scrawl graffiti on ...