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WalletHub has released its 2025 list of the states with the biggest drug problems nationwide, looking at which places have the worst issues with drug abuse. More specifically, the study examines ...

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The more flexible approach some doctors are taking clashes with traditional views of how to treat people with addiction.

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

A man who was left with a bladder the size of a 'shot glass' has issued a warning after a ketamine addiction left him needing ...

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 new analysis by WalletHub has revealed the states struggling most with drug use, with New Mexico, West Virginia and Nevada ranking at the top. The study evaluated all 50 states and the District of ...

Social work students at the University of Oklahoma offer solutions and calls to action amid state's growing substance abuse ...

HEALTH officials have issued an urgent addiction warning over three common pain and anxiety drugs. UK medicines watchdog the ...

If you love someone with substance use problems, this was a particularly cruel week to be on the internet. As soon as authorities said they suspected that the person responsible for Rob and Michele ...