The number of young Long Islanders in treatment for heroin addiction more than doubled from 2007 to 2009, flooding rehabilitation centers with thousands of complex cases. "All of our treatment systems ...

Undergoing major surgery can be a daunting experience, and managing postoperative pain effectively is crucial for a smooth recovery. Opiates are commonly prescribed to alleviate severe pain following ...

Governor Peter Shumlin has said his state is at the center of “a full-blown heroin crisis” that is plaguing the whole country. Heroin use in Vermont has risen dramatically in the past 12 years. This ...

Jamie Lee Curtis celebrated a personal milestone on February 3: 25 years of sobriety. "25 years clean and sober. One day at a time. 9,125 of them," she wrote in a social media post. The actor ...

The growing availability of heroin, combined with programs aimed at curbing prescription painkiller abuse, may be changing the face of opiate addiction in the U.S., according to sociologists. While ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the word “PEER,” Joy Bogese approaches people struggling with drug addiction the way a teacher might approach a reluctant student — gently, ...

Sophie Casalini doesn't remember the 30 minutes she drove with her daughter on I-465 nearly two years ago. She remembers injecting the heroin down the street from her dealer’s house. She remembers ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

Frank Blazquez, "The Gallegos Twins from Belen, NM" (2019) (all images courtesy the artist) SANTA FE, NM — For New Mexico-based self-taught artist Frank Blazquez, his portrait photography, mixed-media ...

Citing the burglary of a property occupied by a lone, elderly woman “in the hours of darkness” and the coin stolen having ...