Families ruined by heroin addiction share their stories. — -- Aaron Smith held up a needle he used to shoot heroin. “More or less this is all you need,” the 22-year-old said. It's what he called ...

Geoffrey Mutebi relapsed after as US funding freeze made it impossible to access the methadone needed to control his heroin addiction - Sophie Neiman On January 25, as the sun rose over a glistening ...

LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — In the days following her 18-year-old daughter’s first arrest on heroin charges, Stephanie Moyer took solace thinking the nearby jail in central Pennsylvania would be a safe place ...

A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail. The family's lawyer said jail staff ignored her ...

Heroin, or opiate, withdrawal is the gold standard of addiction withdrawal. Imagine the worst flu of your life and then imagine knowing that taking a hit of this stuff will make it all better. Think ...

Niko Vorobyov, a journalist and author of the book "Dopeworld" traveled to 15 countries on five continents to look at how the issue of illicit drugs "has shaped the entire world: wars, scandals, coups ...

"Opioid withdrawal is notoriously difficult to treat," and these findings suggest that yoga helped patients stabilize from ...

When filmmaker Aaron Strand, originally from Athens, asked his mother-in-law to borrow her rental property between tenants to shoot his independent film, she didn’t know he would scrawl graffiti on ...