A mom was a decade-long heroin addict, spending nearly $680 on the substance per week — but she kicked the habit once she hit rock bottom. When Shannon Ashley was 13, she tried heroin to “show off” in ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...

Undated photo of the Narcotic Farm, which was built in an institutional, Art Deco style. The central interior tower stands as a “temple” of rehabilitation. Photos from a newly published book, “The ...

"Nightline" got access to the inner workings of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Up a dusty road, in a sun-dappled field in northwest Mexico, a small team of workers bent over, quietly tending to the crops on ...

CDC: Heroin overdose deaths surpass gun homicides for first time Heroin overdose deaths narrowly surpassed gun homicides as the more prolific killer last year, according to new CDC data relayed by The ...

In a speech at the Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his policy perspectives are influenced by the 14-year heroin addiction ...