Kennedy wants to create "wellness drug rehabilitation farms." But the U.S. tried it before, and it didn't work.

After a surge fueled by the opioid epidemic and the spread of fentanyl, drug overdose deaths in the United States have begun to decline, as have nonfatal overdoses. The exact reasons for this drop ...

IN “super junkie” Adolf Hitler’s final days, his addiction to cocaine, heroin and meth came to a head – leaving him combing ...

David Herzberg, a historian of the pharmaceutical industry and author of "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America," has an idea. He proposes that drug markets are ...

One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access ...

In the United States, there is a distinct tendency for opioid epidemics to be followed by stimulant epidemics. David Musto, M.D., renowned Yale historian of medicine and expert on drug policy, first ...

To express the ambient feeling that "things are getting worse," there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, and on its x-axis floats the disembodied, smiling face of President ...