Groups dedicated to keeping drug users healthy — and alive — have thrived during the past decade to counter the staggering toll of the nation’s overdose crisis. They hit the streets to distribute ...

PATERSON — One by one, the unhoused drug users living in an encampment along freight railroad tracks in the city's 4th Ward trudged through a hole in the fence when they saw the harm reduction workers ...

James Bunster grew up in a well-off family in Smithtown, attended St. Anthony’s High School and went on to the University at Albany. But his life unraveled. Bunster became addicted to drugs and fell ...

A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the destructive. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as ...

Samson Tafolo’s final count read 119. For 45 minutes, he had tugged a wagon packed with mini water bottles, hemp cigarettes and miscellaneous hygiene products around Skid Row, handing out the supplies ...

The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on Thursday announced an investigation into whether the City of Rainsville violated three federal laws when it denied an application for a ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed in 2025, cut funding and reduced access to recovery programs for drug addicts by slashing Medicaid and Affordable Care Act supports that had expanded treatment ...