At times, Sandra Spadafora feels trapped in the memory of the September afternoon in 2019, when she learned her 33-year-old son, Andrew Brown, had gone missing. There were frantic calls to Boston area ...

In the context of the digital revolution, this need becomes even more urgent. We live in a time when ideas are measured by reach, impact, interaction, and the ability to turn into collective action.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Dec. 15, designating Fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. The order would allow the U.S. to expand even further its militarization of ...

The face of the man who officials believe killed two students was not visible in newly released footage, but they hoped he might still be recognized as the manhunt stretched past 48 hours. Mark ...

Glory Jewitt, Global Head of Environment, Health & Safety at Google, releases a powerful new memoir that traces her twenty-five-year ascent from laborer in the remote Canadian Oil Sands to executive ...

I wrote elevators in the headline for the benefit of my American brothers, but from this point on it's strictly lifts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Baltimore Police raided at least four residences early Wednesday morning in a string of searches they said were connected to a probe of the “bad batch” of drugs that caused almost three dozen people ...

A man who allegedly gave a deadly amount of fentanyl to a woman — even warning her that the drugs were possibly lethal — has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. William McNeill, 39, of Dorchester, pleaded ...

In December, Providence made history opening the first ever state sanctioned overdose prevention site in the country. It's a place where people struggling with addiction can come perform drug use ...

The group Doctors for Safer Drug Policy have resumed their unsanctioned overdose prevention sites near hospitals in Nanaimo and Victoria. The group is renewing its call for funding for sites at ...

Advocates speak at a Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery Committee hearing in Gardner Auditorium on Monday. From left: ACLU Legislative Director Gavi Wolfe, RIZE Massachusetts President and CEO ...