RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A recent report showed that four towns in North Carolina are in the top 20 for opioid abuse, with Wilmington rated as the worst city for opioid abuse in the nation. Opioids ...

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...

A heroin-targeting monoclonal antibody (11D12) is effective in blocking the euphoric and lethal effects of this much-abused opioid, reported a study conducted on mice by scientists at the Scripps ...

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Heroin abuse and overdoses remain an issue nationwide and one that local police departments continued to battle over the past year. Many communities have also seen a surge in methamphetamine, fetanyl ...

Nolan Brandt is 19 years old, and already he's learned a lot about addiction and how it can destroy a family. "I would trade the world. I would trade anything I could not to be educated because that ...

EAST LIVERPOOL, OH. — (CNN) An Ohio police department says it made the decision to release a set of graphic photos to drive home the devastating effects of heroin addiction and the toll it takes on ...

New York State’s recent efforts to crack down on prescription drug abuse—especially dangerously addictive opioids like hydrocodone and oxycodone—have been enormously successful. The results of the ...

To combat the synthetic drug — or gas statoin heroin — crisis, we need regulation that draws a hard line between Mother ...