GREENSBORO, N.C. (WFMY) -- More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Heroin has become an epidemic around the nation and in North ...

Meth is a problem most everywhere, but particularly in Indian Country. In one small town on the Crow Indian Reservation in ...

Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress cravings for meth and other stimulants. As use soars, hundreds of clinics are trying a radically different approach. Six months after a doctor ...

GREAT FALLS - Women make up a growing percentage of people being treated for methamphetamine addiction in Montana, new state health figures show. Health and addiction experts say the increase could be ...

Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

Live from WYFF 4 studios, Chronicle: State of Addiction was a community event that featured law enforcement and addiction specialists answering viewer questions and discussing issues and solutions ...

Drug related deaths have been the highest since records began in 1993, with the latest ONS (Office National Statistics) figures showing that 5,448 people died in England and Wales from substance ...

Heroin, or opiate, withdrawal is the gold standard of addiction withdrawal. Imagine the worst flu of your life and then imagine knowing that taking a hit of this stuff will make it all better. Think ...

Methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) was associated with significantly lower levels of serum melatonin and disrupted circadian patterns compared with not having MUD, a new study showed. Melatonin levels ...