Betty Guadagno says she was just 12 when she first tried drugs, but it was an overdose that triggered a near-death experience ...

Lambton is struggling with an unprecedented addiction crisis, generating plenty of news about overdoses and homelessness. But ...

Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her ...

Bradley began using cocaine and alcohol as a teenager and his life quickly spiralled. After finding himself behind bars and ...

After rising exponentially since 1979, overdose rates have finally begun to decline, falling more than 29 percent since 2022.

About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary ...

The Aberdeen-born goalkeeper endured a hellish journey of self-harm and drug addiction before re-discovering sport.

Kevin McEnroe reflected on his relationship with his mother, Tatum O'Neal, in a heartfelt essay for 'The Small Bow,' and ...

The Trump administration’s cuts to federal addiction programs are striking a blow to the U.S. economy, not just public health, according to a report released Wednesday by the Addiction Science Defense ...

Addiction treatment rates are 13 times higher in the country's most disadvantaged areas than the most affluent. New research shows it rises to 41 times higher for heroin and crack cocaine. The study ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! It was about a year ago that Jonathan Paolini, a nurse practitioner and director of ...

Today, May 4, 2026, Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar and District Attorney Paul Battisti joined with Craig Tremaroli from the Albany Field Office of the FBI and First Assistant U.S. Attorney John ...