When many of us think about drug overdose, we picture young people at a music festival or people dependent on street heroin. But the latest figures from the Penington Institute show older Australians ...

Rwanda is looking to harm reduction to close critical gaps in healthcare for people who use drugs, with draft national guidelines proposing improved access to HIV prevention and treatment, mental ...

Researchers say little is known about the risks of GLP-1s for people who don't have an approved medical condition.

Use of medications for mental health and behavioral conditions among children and young adults increased steadily for two decades, and about one in four young people taking these medicines were ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction. Against expert advice, people are using new and ...

Researchers believe that GLP-1 drugs act on reward areas of the brain that are responsible for food cravings, making it possible that they silence cravings for addictive substances. The Conversation — ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

If you’re like most people, you’ve been impacted in some way by substance use disorders. You may have had family, friends, or other acquaintances who have struggled with drug addiction. As a result, ...

Mr. Lopez is a writer for the editorial board. It has never been easier to be intoxicated all day, every day in the United States. Consider a few trends: In 1950 the typical American would have had to ...