Connecticut has banned tianeptine, known as "gas station heroin," classifying it as Schedule I as 14 states crack down on the ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The latest figures on heroin show the number of first time users in this country has increased by 60 percent over the last decade to 156,000. Addiction experts say once hooked ...

In the summer of 1988, at the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ European tour, frontman Anthony Kiedis and guitarist Hillel ...

(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...

About 100 people — mostly local drug addicts — gathered at a pagoda in Phnom Penh in mid-February. A few drug users had brought their families for support, and they sat together on woven mats before a ...

The numbers differ, depending on who you listen to, but the idea that we are losing 65 to 100 people each day in this country to fatal opiate overdoses is sad, stunning, and not surprising. How and ...

Pakistan denies any responsibility and states that their operations targeted "military facilities and terrorist support ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Afghanistan-grown poppies fuel a $65 billion heroin and opium market that feeds 15 million addicts, with Europe, Russia and Iran consuming half the supply, a U.N. report ...