Carbon County officials are trying to beef up their opioid treatment services within the prison through a continued partnership with an area drug and alcohol organization. During the county ...

Families of overdose victims and advocates gathered in LeBauer Park for the annual commemoration of lives lost to addiction on Black Balloon Day.

More than 3,000 nurses and doctors were asked about their own alcohol consumption and use of illegal drugs. They were also ...

A new study finds that popular GLP-1 drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity show new promise in fighting multiple substance use disorders. An analysis of electronic health records of ...

A large study of data from Veterans Affairs finds that people on GLP-1 drugs were less likely to develop substance abuse disorder or overdose.

Suboxone is now the standard of care in the U.S. for treating opioid addiction, but its downsides are often overlooked. RFK Jr. is right to emphasize full abstinence.

A growing body of research has looked at GLP-1 drugs for alcohol use disorder. A new study shows the medications could have a ...

The blockbuster GLP-1 drugs that have reshaped the treatment of diabetes and obesity may help prevent multiple substance use ...

Once used by vets to anesthetize elephants, carfentanil is now an extremely dangerous illicit drug often disguised as an oxycodone tablet—and it's 100 times stronger than fentanyl.

The protective effect was seen across a wide variety of addictive and habit-forming substances, including cocaine, opioids, alcohol, nicotine and cannabis.

The effect was seen across a wide variety of addictive and habit-forming substances, including cocaine, opioids, alcohol, ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for ...