For this week's Reporter's Notebook segment, NPR Addiction Correspondent Brian Mann explains the reasons behind the surprise drop in overdose deaths across the country.

A little-known federal agency that touches the lives of people across the United States by funding the 988 crisis line, ...

Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned ...

Drug screening is the process by which potential drugs are identified and optimized before selection of a candidate drug to progress to clinical trials. It can involve screening large libraries of ...

The US government, despite opposition from all sides, has slapped tariffs indiscriminately on countries around the world.

Anna Quigley from the CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign says it is of no benefit to anyone to arrest drug addicts who need help. Society she says needs to stop criminalising people for using drugs ...

Of Course This Hurts, her latest exhibition, is a unique, affecting meditation on living through the loss, fear and societal stigma wrought by the unregulated toxic drug supply crisis in B.C ...

The founders of Bugworks Research are attempting to bring to market a new class of antibiotics--a first in almost half a ...

Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been extradited to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his deadly “war on drugs”. Mr Duterte arrived at The Hague in the Netherlands on ...

The Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau recovered an estimated €2m worth of drugs, including 18kg of cocaine, in Louth and Dublin on Wednesday morning The Garda National Drugs and ...

ITV News Digital Reporter Sam Leader investigates a 'silent' crisis of drug deaths shaking parts of the LGBT+ community across the UK Healthcare, law enforcement and nonprofit professionals are ...