Like people in general, pregnant people use non-prescribed drugs for many reasons. Opioids and stimulants are increasingly popular, as well ...

Drugs were hidden in four suitcases on ship returning to Essex from Caribbean, police say

Suppliers, fearing police crackdown, decide opioid is too high-risk to trade

The long read: When high doses of painkillers led to widespread addiction, it was called one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine. But this was no accident

The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), which has called for a major rethinking of global policy on illegal narcotics.

Public health experts say they see reason to be optimistic but warned against drawing firm conclusions based on a half-year’s worth of data.

Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that can lead to bad science.

The strip detects fentanyl, the cheap synthetic opioid, mixed with street drugs – that’s been blamed for the surge of overdose deaths. It’s controversial because helping drug users test their supplies could be seen as advocating abuse.

Drug companies will have to give list prices for their products in television ads under a new proposal the Trump administration released Monday. The new rule, which is open for discussion, would affect any drug covered by Medicare or Medicaid. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the new proposal just hours after the lobby group that represents big drug companies said its members would start indirectly mentioning prices in their television ads.

For recreational users, ecstasy has long been associated with a harmonious mindset. Now there’s research to back that up. In a new study of MDMA, ecstasy’s main ingredient, the drug indeed made people more cooperative—but only with trustworthy partners.

The combination is naproxen (in Aleve) and stomach drug esomeprazole (in Nexium).

The scale and darkness of this epidemic is a sign of a civilization in a more acute crisis than we knew. This nation pioneered modern life. Now epic numbers of Americans are killing themselves with opioids to escape it.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal prosecutors on Wednesday to seek the death penalty in drug-related cases whenever it is "appropriate," saying the Justice Department must boost efforts to counter America's epidemic of opioid abuse.

Two new studies support this correlation

Drug users don't take heroin because of postindustrial despair — they do it because withdrawal feels worse than anything you can imagine.

There are rallies planned in almost every state this weekend.

Long-term use of the medications is surging in the United States, according to an analysis by The Times. One reason: withdrawal symptoms that make it difficult to stop.

Long-term use of the medications is surging in the United States, according to an analysis by The Times. One reason: withdrawal symptoms that make it difficult to stop.

Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a small dropper. It was a delicate operation that had become a daily routine — extracting ever tinier doses of the antidepressant she had taken for three years, on and off, and was desperately trying to quit. “Basically that’s all I have been doing — dealing with the dizziness, the confusion, the fatigue, all the symptoms of withdrawal,” said Ms. Toline, 27, of Tacoma, Wash. It took nine months to wean herself from the drug, Zoloft, by taking increasingly smaller doses.

Fake marijuana likely contaminated with rat poison has killed three people in Illinois and caused severe bleeding in more than 100 others, including a few in four other states. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has alerted doctors nationwide that patients with severe, unexplained bleeding may be additional cases.

What opioid addiction treatments are more effective and can we vaccinate against addiction?

Should law enforcement be able to test them?

The push towards decriminalization comes as the opioid crisis continues to claim thousands of lives on both sides of the 49th parallel

Tomás Yarrington is set to go on trial for alleged drug trafficking.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

"I felt as though I were communing directly with a plant for the first time."

New evidence suggests that men who have used psychedelic drugs are around half as likely to be violent against their intimate partners as men who have never used such substances. The results came from a study undertaken at the University of British Columbia, and published by the Journal of Psychopharmacology on May 29. Researchers aimed to examine the association between the perpetration of "intimate partner violence" and lifetime psychedelic use.

On this week’s episode of Inside the Hive, Nick Bilton sits down with technologist Tom Conrad to discuss the murky ethics of the dark Web.

A billionaire and his very powerful computer are helping a pharma pioneer find the drugs of tomorrow.

As knowledge of pain and the highly addictive nature of opioids has grown, so has the knowledge grown about pain and its origins. A pain specialist explains the intricacies, and how treatment is changing as a result.

“Leon” is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, where he describes the challenge of living with a mental illness that affects some 300 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Leon is among the roughly 30 percent of those patients with treatment-resistant depression. Available antidepressant drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors do not alleviate his depressed mood, fatigue, anxiety, low self-esteem and suicidal thoughts.

There may be additional long-term health harms from antibiotic exposure in early life and before birth, including an increased risk of infection, obesity and asthma.

Federal authorities seized a large amount of fentanyl they say was shipped to a Philadelphia port from China. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers seized 110 pounds of the deadly opioid after a routine check at the Area Port of Philadelphia. A drug-detecting K9 alerted officers to the fentanyl inside barrels of Iron Oxide that had been shipped from China. Officers discovered 50 packages that contained sealed bags of a white, powdery substance.

European nations see biggest increases in use of stimulants such as Ritalin by people seeking brain-boosting effects.

Mice given a drug combo see a reverse of some problems caused by senescent cells.