drug abuse

Bouncing on a purple exercise ball, Alyssa talks to her new teacher about what classes she needs to graduate. "There’s a Psychology 1 as an elective, I…

James, who asked to only be identified by his middle name, tried Oxycontin for the first time when he was in college. "We all know how this narrative goes…

Fueled by research conducted on such sites in other countries, the Massachusetts Medical Society's delegates voted to support studying a pilot program…

Hannah Berkowitz is 20 years old. When she was a senior in high school, her life flew off the rails.She was abusing drugs. She was suicidal. She moved…

A new study finds an alarming increase in the number of newborns dependent on drugs. The new research shows the number of newborns drug dependent…

Massachusetts is one of about 40 states where someone who abuses drugs or alcohol to an extreme can be legally committed to a locked treatment facility.…

As doctors and nurses learn more about what the body goes through during drug use, they are changing the treatment they provide for patients on heroin and other drugs.

For some patients looking to break their addiction to heroin or prescription painkillers, there's a drug out there that works. It’s called Suboxone, but…

In 2014, nearly 1,200 people in North Carolina died from accidental opioid drug overdoses.Every one of them could still be alive today, said Rick Brajer,…

Last month, Dr. John Kelly gave a presentation at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Washington D.C. It's an important agency that funds more than a…