Hee found a path to redemption and now works to inspire others to get clean or to avoid the tortured life he once led.

It was the ultimate hell for single dad Scott Meyers. His teen daughter, Rachel, had progressed from smoking pot to doing every drug imaginable, ultimately spiraling into an inescapable web of heroin ...

New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

Heroin overdose deaths in the U.S. nearly tripled from 2010 to 2013, according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The trend is worrisome — but there might be help in ...

A medication offered to heroin abusers at the Albany County jail was shown to help prevent addicts from returning to illegal drug use, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England ...

Family and friends celebrated the life of 18-year-old Tyler Herron Friday night. The young man died one year ago as a result of the demons of heroin. "He was a fun boy, family oriented, wanted his ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

A mom was a decade-long heroin addict, spending nearly $680 on the substance per week — but she kicked the habit once she hit rock bottom. When Shannon Ashley was 13, she tried heroin to “show off” in ...

D spent a decade recovering from an addiction that started when he fell off a ladder, got injured and was prescribed opioid ...

A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. I’d been out shoplifting, and hadn’t been able to find anything to sell ...