Test strips can identify dangerous hidden additives in street drugs and help prevent overdoses. But the Trump administration says federal funds can't be used to provide the strips to drug users.

A study co-led by investigators at Mass General Brigham reveals that mobile addiction services can be implemented across ...

The opioid-like compound, which is found in kratom, can cause brutal withdrawal symptoms and will soon be a controlled ...

RDML. Christopher Jones - Acting Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality joins the show to ...

Mandatory drug testing can unintentionally reinforce shame, weaken trust, and reduce recovery to a pass-fail measure.

After a decade of watching the overdose curve climb, we are seeing something we almost stopped expecting: The curve is trending down. Overdose deaths are falling. Treatment is reaching people that it ...

The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy and stigmatize neighborhoods. The White House recently endorsed monitoring ...

ONDCP, SAMHSA and HUD Convene National Experts to Establish a Toolkit to Treat Addiction among Homeless Individuals. In support of President Trump’s Executive Order on Ending Crime and Disorder on ...

COLORADO, USA — A new Colorado law restricts the use by police of a controversial field drug test that studies have shown can result in a high percentage of false positive cases. So-called ...

COLORADO, USA — Colorado has become the first state to ban arrests based solely on a field drug test widely used by law enforcement across the county. According to a CNN story, colorimetric drug tests ...

Bird poop scraped off a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine. A toddler’s ashes registered as methamphetamine or ecstasy. And a great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – ...