Cutting government waste is a good aim, but we need a bold new vision and priorities to tackle the drug crisis.

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now.

"far younger than the average onset age of drug abuse of 16 years old", indicated in a 2022 survey conducted by the Institute of Mental Health. With an increasing number of new abusers arrested ...

Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

A new study suggests that medications that have transformed the treatment of obesity may also help people drink less alcohol.

Long Island researchers and patients are urging the Trump administration to reconsider cuts to NIH research funding.

The federal funding freeze compounds the existing barriers to medical marijuana research, further hindering efforts to ...

For years, people taking Ozempic or other drugs in the same class for diabetes and weight loss have noticed the medicines don ...

It's available to the community through the National Institute of Drug Abuse's VEnding machine Naloxone Distribution in Your community, or VENDY, program. "We really engaged our community members ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.

Gen Z isn't drinking less because we aren't 21. Zoomers' hesitancy to drink likely has something to do with our preoccupation with mental health.

But the results add to evidence from animal studies and reports that people are finding drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy helpful ...