Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. openly discusses having been addicted to heroin at age 15, following the assassination of his father. While some may associate his introduction to and ...

Ozempic and related weight loss drugs may help people struggling with addiction, as they've been linked to a 40 percent reduction in opioid overdose and 50 percent lower rate of alcohol intoxication, ...

Two drugs currently used to treat heroin and prescription painkiller addiction may work together to fight cocaine as well — without causing dependence themselves, according to a new study in rats. A ...

An addiction clinic says they’re seeing more people come in with addictions to a synthetic form of kratom which has a higher ...

The terms “addiction” and “dependence” can seem similar, but they are different. Dependence occurs when the body physically relies on a drug. Addiction involves changes in behavior. A person with an ...

In the face of Virginia’s alarming overdose statistics and increasing xylazine usage — “a cheap animal sedative not intended for human consumption,” according to a Virginia Mercury article, “As ...

Decades before it became known as "gas station heroin," tianeptine was prescribed to treat depression in dozens of countries. Now, U.S. poison control centers are reporting a dramatic spike in cases ...

Residents and business owners in Burlington, Vermont, spoke to Fox News Digital this week about the challenges their city is facing with an increase in homelessness and drug use on city streets, with ...