A program in rural eastern Kentucky is receiving opioid settlement funding to address substance use disorders, housing, ...

Social media providers are facing a blizzard of regulation and legal action over children and teenagers’ use of social media. Last December, Australia banned under-16s from logging in to major social ...

The White House’s newly released strategy for tackling the nation’s drug and addiction crisis calls for a number of ambitious public health approaches that some experts say are laudable but will be ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

In February 2013, a photo of Desmond Bryant went viral. Instead of signing a $35 million contract with the Cleveland Browns, the former Harvard player woke up in a jail cell. At the time, Bryant says ...

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 his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

The government has launched £20m worth of grants for technology to help fight drug and alcohol addiction in the UK. The funding, which will be delivered through Innovate UK, aims to support the ...

Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before releasing them. Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified ...

Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and death. These can be the consequences for vulnerable kids who get addicted to social media, according to more than 1,000 personal injury lawsuits that seek to ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...