Thanks to Steven A. Schroeder for his opinion piece regarding alcoholism and drug addiction (“Grant Makers Must Attack Substance Abuse,” July 26.). This disease has been considered a moral issue for ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A $447 billion bill that would boost financial oversight and high-speed rail, encourage needle exchanges for drug addicts, and advance other Democratic priorities won final U.S.

There’s a renewed push to legalize overdose prevention centers on Beacon Hill, with advocates touting supervised drug use as harm prevention. That depends on how one defines harm. At these centers, ...

(Adds Ye Gon formally indicted on U.S. charges, paragraph 6) MEXICO CITY, July 26 (Reuters) - Mexico will use $206 million confiscated in what officials call the world's biggest drug cash seizure to ...

Briarwood Detox Center in Houston, Texas is a Joint Commission-accredited facility offering personalized drug and alcohol detox programs from all addictive substances. Our individualized detox ...

(RNS) — Dropping bombs and killing drug dealers may look good on television, but the real war on drugs occurs in treatment programs, which are terribly underfunded. (RNS) — President Donald Trump ...

For decades, Washington has mostly banned the use of federal funds for needle-exchange programs for drug addicts. The originator of the ban was uber-conservative North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms.

San Francisco is shifting how the city governs — and now describes — its goals around substance use and overdoses. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a largely symbolic ...

Drug overdose deaths in San Francisco are snowballing, and the city still hasn’t ruled out its strategy of enabling users. San Francisco saw 806 people die from accidental drug overdoses in 2023, the ...