Dr. William Santoro’s presentation Tuesday to about 40 students at Penn State Berks included startling statistics. Santoro said the largest treatment gap in medicine is in addiction. Of the 23 million ...

The Vermont Department of Health’s four-year-old “hub and spoke” model for treating opiate addiction led to a 96 percent reduction in patients’ usage of the dangerous drugs, according to a report ...

When Rachel Motil was withdrawing from heroin, guilt and shame consumed her, along with the conscience that had been blinded by addiction. "What did I do?" she thought, remembering all of the pain she ...

Two Ohio parents face child endangerment charges after their 8-year-old son was found unresponsive last month with opiates in his system, authorities said. The couple had called 911 after they noticed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. THOMASVILLE, N.C. – A Thomasville mother was ...

“My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life. She ultimately died of it," the late actress' daughter said. By Ryan Parker Carrie Fisher had cocaine and opiates in her system when ...

Seven in 10 infants younger than 1 year old placed into Ohio foster care have parents with a substance abuse problem, and that's a problem Ohio's leaders haven't adequately tackled, a group of child ...

A driver whose car went through a yard and crashed into a porch on East Franklin Street on Thursday is suspected to have been under the influence of both alcohol and drugs, according to an Evansville ...

New research indicates that the effects of nicotine and opiates on the brain's reward system are equally strong in a key pleasure-sensing areas of the brain -- the nucleus accumbens. "That was good!" ...

For those who’ve experienced the legendary tow of opiates, a deepening cycle of despair and deliverance is commonplace. For the rest of us it is hard to imagine what motivates such futile and ...

Garry Shandling‘s cause of death has been revealed. The late comedian died of from pulmonary thrombosis, a blood clot that traveled from his leg into his lungs, according to an autopsy report. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Two Ohio parents face child endangerment ...