Edit: Literally one day after saying it was cutting $2 billion in addiction and mental healthcare funding, The Department of Health and Human Services is now apparently reversing 180 degrees to ...

President Donald Trump has long been adamant about fixing what he described as America's "opioid crisis," something which was a key focus of his first term as president as well as his second. The ...

A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing policies that are show ...

Ms. B (identified by first initial of last name for privacy) had never told anyone about the sexual abuse she had suffered at the hands of her uncle as a young child. For years during her adolescence, ...

The Trump administration’s plan to revamp the entire Health and Human Services Department, which Congress has rejected, has nevertheless led to the gutting of a 33-year-old agency that had been ...

A little-known federal agency that touches the lives of people across the United States by funding the 988 crisis line, naloxone distribution and addiction treatment may be weakened and possibly ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The White House on Thursday unveiled a new effort to streamline the country’s response to its drug and alcohol epidemic, pledging to align ...

Addiction can affect far more than health. It can change how a person shows up at work, how others see them professionally, ...

In 2019, more than 41 million adults aged 18 and older reported having used cocaine at some point in their lives, according to a 2020 report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

The country's main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more than a third of its ...

FILE - A box containing free doses of naloxone, a nasal spray medication to reverse drug overdoses, is installed at Ontario Beach Park in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday ...