A former drug dealer, Terrell Scott, has returned to the streets of McDonough, not to wreak havoc, but to save them by ...

A class of diabetes and weight-loss drugs, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, may do far more than trim waistlines. Early studies reveal they could also ease alcohol, nicotine, and drug dependence by ...

Yet just across the Bay, San Francisco's drug epidemic is deadlier.  Although Oakland has more people per capita living ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. This chapter of my life had begun when I was 15. That was when I met an ...

Larry's Home in Little Egg Harbor offers a sober-living residence for Ocean County veterans recovering from addiction.

There’s palpable frustration from neighbors ... our firefighters, even our Housing First navigators,” said Tucson Mayor ...

A mom was a decade-long heroin addict, spending nearly $680 on the substance per week — but she kicked the habit once she hit rock bottom. When Shannon Ashley was 13, she tried heroin to “show off” in ...