Opioid overdoses claimed 1,227 lives in Virginia last year, the most in more than a decade. For Gov. Ralph Northam, it’s beyond time to end the state’s “foremost public health crisis.” Northam, a ...

Bellaire High School students heard from a motivational speaker from Vive 18 on Thursday about the dangers of drug abuse.The ...

Since the 1970s, countless experts and the US government have sold the public a simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug.

Professor of psychology Carl Hart visited Tulane to deliver a Murphy Institute Center for Ethics public lecture on recreational drug policy.

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

The global drug use disorder deaths have more than doubled since 1990, even as new addiction cases declined, highlighting a ...