The number of young Long Islanders in treatment for heroin addiction more than doubled from 2007 to 2009, flooding rehabilitation centers with thousands of complex cases. "All of our treatment systems ...

Families ruined by heroin addiction share their stories. — -- Aaron Smith held up a needle he used to shoot heroin. “More or less this is all you need,” the 22-year-old said. It's what he called ...

Failure in drug rehabilitation happens regularly. “I have patients who have died from opiate overdoses in the last few years and it’s only growing in number,” says Dr. Torin Finver, who specializes in ...

Americans are fond of the idea that they can keep from doing “bad” drugs by taking “good” ones instead. The heroin/methadone model has actually been institutionalized: you can go to government-funded ...

During House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing several months ago in June, Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) called out HHS Secretary RFK Jr. for slashing funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental ...

A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most—nearly seven ...