The criminal justice system has been the federal government's main avenue for tackling drug addiction since President Richard Nixon effectively launched the "War on Drugs" in 1971. But drug overdose ...

A Canadian study finds that as fentanyl use began increasing in 2014, opioid agonist treatment duration with methadone or ...

Rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, he was discharged a few hours later. The fact that he had snorted all of the ...

Two sergeants have administered the life-saving nasal spray Naloxone to two people suffering from a drug overdose in Sheffield and Doncaster.

The widespread spread of nitazenes, a powerful synthetic opioid, has largely been behind a tripling in the number of drug ...

The widespread spread of nitazenes, a powerful synthetic opioid, has largely been behind a tripling in the number of drug ...

A Greater Manchester MP has called for GMP to change its policy and the region's Deputy Mayor, Kate Green, is to demand an explanation from the force over its stance. Neal Keeling reports on a growing ...

Just two police forces in the country refuse to give their officers naloxone. Big Issue reporting has sparked politicians to ...

Audio from emergency dispatches show a single call for help for a 27-year-old woman quickly spiraled into a much larger ...

Inside a bright new building in the heart of Skid Row, homeless people hung out in a canopy-covered courtyard — some waiting to take a shower, do laundry, or get medication for addiction treatment.