Under a new state pilot, paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering a medication that blunts withdrawals and cravings.

Are dropping fentanyl-related death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction?

Even the 'land of steady habits' has seen change over time. Here's a look at 10 ways Connecticut is becoming a different ...

Racism and politics played a part in how we viewed them.” By Philippa Martyr, University of Western Australia Cannabis, ...

Kratom is known for its stimulant and opioid-like effects and is derived from the leaves of a tree in the coffee family, the Southeast Asian tree Mitragyna speciosa. This differs from another natural ...

Oregon prison officials use drug detection and wastewater monitoring to combat the growing challenge of drugs being smuggled into state correctional facilities.

It couldn’t have been a more hectic start of the year for the US — a nation that appears to have a longer list of problems than Jay Z as it prepares for four more years of Donald Trump.

Georgia State University is making a nine-story addition to Atlanta’s skyline. The 155,000-square-foot research tower off Decatur Street on the university’s downtown campus is set to be completed in ...

An executive order designating cartels as terrorist organizations will expand prosecutors' jurisdictions, affect relations ...

The recent rise in opioid deaths, for example, is attributable to a shift ... and many other substances of abuse) with the synthetic painkiller fentanyl, which is not only cheaper but 30 to ...

President Donald Trump is considering changing a key U.S. trade benefit to other nations, the "de minimis" exemption on ...

Regtech company ComplyAdvantage has recently noted that organized crime plays "an increasingly dominant role in global ...