Regarding David O. Smith’s opinion piece titled “Forget methadone and psychedelics. There is a better weapon in the war on drugs,” Mr. Smith is certainly entitled to his opinions on people who use ...

Every 90 minutes, a New Yorker dies from a preventable drug overdose. Long Island, too, has been ravaged; Nassau and Suffolk counties have two of the 10 highest overdose death rates in New York State.

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Last summer, I learned that I needed major oral surgery, including having some teeth removed, bone grafts and ...

In 2020 Oregon voters approved Measure 110, the nation’s first law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, including fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamines. Under Measure 110, people ...

Author Rax King says her new book of essays Sloppy is unified by themes of “addiction and bad habits.” King has been sober from alcohol and cocaine for three years and in these essays, she openly ...

Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby. Jade Dass in her garden in Apache Junction, Ariz., in ...

Two Stone Memorial High School students won a $1,000 scholarship for personal essays on addiction. The scholarships were provided by the Cumberland Prevention Coalition. The nonprofit is focused on ...

NEW DELHI: The Punjab government will implement a drug prevention curriculum in all government schools across the state starting August 1, targeting students in grades 9 to 12. The initiative aims to ...