Following recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has decided to place five new psychoactive substances and one medicine under ...

Knoxville distributed money to organizations that address overdoses, coordinate recovery programs and eliminate illegal drug supply chains. This is the most recent distribution of funds in a series of ...

Members of Louisville's Quick Response Team previously experienced substance abuse themselves. Now they help others stay alive.

Students get hands-on experience while learning about healthcare options.

This is the first installment of a five-part series on the Drug-Alcohol Coalition of Iredell's recent "In The Know" event.

To modernize older commercial zoning and improper uses, zoning commission approved the rezoning of 48 properties north of ...

Findings suggest that better understanding of how sex hormones interact with chronic pain could lead to new approaches to addressing the opioid epidemic.

My wife, Jody, said that when I started talking again, I would repeat the same stories three, four, or even five times in a ...

Nearly 17 million children and adolescents in the United States are estimated to live with a parent who has a substance use disorder, according to a study led by Texas State University, University of ...

Nearly 17 million children and adolescents in the United States are estimated to live with a parent who has a substance-use ...

Feb. 26 was one of those times. The underdog Pirates fought tooth and nail against Laurel, but lost to the Gators, 59-43, in the first of two Division IV regional games played at Canton Memorial ...

Surveys found more than 1,800 intravenous drug users in the county ... a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone, the antagonist drug in Narcan which reverses the effects of opioids. The combination ...