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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I share the experience of recovering from heroin addiction. Like me, he started the process at a residential rehabilitation facility in the 1980s and participated [...]

In late 2016, Steven Klein realized that he'd lost control over his drinking and stimulant use. He became sober that December, with help from 12-step meetings. But he also struggled [...]

The Republican vice-presidential nominee has spoken often about drug-afflicted communities like the one he escaped. But those communities have tempered their expectations for his help. Sitting in a KFC restaurant [...]

Elected leaders in recovery are sharing their histories of drug abuse, fueled by worry over the epidemic that's killing so many Americans. Around a long wooden table at San Francisco [...]

For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder, it was hard to read or talk about the plight [...]

In February 2021, Oregon decriminalized possession of small amounts of all drugs, via a ballot initiative known as Measure 110. The idea was to treat addiction as a public health [...]

A comparison with Portugal's approach to decriminalization shows why many liberal cities have struggled to match its success. San Francisco is in the middle of a drug crisis. Overdose deaths [...]

San Francisco's national reputation has plunged since the pandemic began, and many residents say they are frustrated by how their beloved city is being viewed. Soon after Karan Mathur arrived [...]

Smoking marijuana while operating a vehicle appears to have become ubiquitous in New York City after the drug's legalization. But it's a trend, though illegal, that's not easy to curb. [...]

As more states legalize marijuana and competition for talent grows fiercer, the U.S. government is loosening guidelines from the ''Just Say No'' era. Not long ago, urinating in a cup [...]

Nearly 6 percent of American teens and adults have cannabis use disorder. Smoking weed had always been a social activity for Julian. He first tried cannabis in high school, and [...]

With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence of safety. For [...]

The potent opioid increasingly is afflicting people of color in American cities. ''I've seen a lot of terrible drugs,'' said a veteran drug counselor. ''This is the worst.'' MILWAUKEE -- [...]

The sleep supplement doesn't cause physical dependence, but falling asleep without it can be tricky for some people. Whether you reached for melatonin to ward off the ''coronasomnia'' that set [...]

A new federal report found that fatal overdoses jumped 44 percent among Black people, twice the increase among white people, from 2019 to the end of 2020. The pandemic's devastating [...]

After a half a century of failure, the U.S. and Mexico have an opportunity to find a new way forward on narcotics policy. MEXICO CITY -- On June 17, 1971, [...]

Marijuana measures are on the ballot in several states that once resisted them. Oregon would go further with a proposal to decriminalize drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Oregon has [...]

Most Americans view politics as two camps bickering endlessly and fruitlessly over unimportant issues. The common view of American politics today is of a clamorous divide between Democrats and Republicans, [...]

YAMHILL, Ore. -- Chaos reigned daily on the No. 6 school bus, with working-class boys and girls flirting and gossiping and dreaming, brimming with mischief, bravado and optimism. Nick rode [...]

There is a place beyond the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, lost to the shining lights of Australia's suburban sprawl. Known vaguely, if romantically, as the outback, or the [...]

Three decades of ever-escalating deaths from drug overdoses in the United States may have come to an end, according to preliminary government data made public Wednesday. Total drug overdose deaths [...]

Teenage dramas have typically presented a soapy view of high school, with more sex, drugs and wild behavior than in real life. But HBO's new series ''Euphoria'' portrays a youth [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Four days after her toddler's health took a turn for the worse, his tiny body racked by fever, diarrhea and vomiting, Sharon Mbone decided it was time [...]

The number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in 2017 hit the highest level since the collection of federal mortality data started in 1999, according to an analysis by [...]

BOSTON -- To the medical students, the patient was a conundrum. According to his chart, he had residual pain from a leg injury sustained while working on a train track. [...]

EUREKA, Calif. -- The dirty needles can be found scattered among the pine and brush, littering the forest floor around Eureka, a town long celebrated as a gateway to the [...]

After foraging through the Dumpster of discarded ideas, the Trump administration has dragged out another fetid reject as part of its campaign to roll back modernity, common sense and the [...]

WASHINGTON -- A long-awaited study has found that two of the main medications for treating opioid addiction are similarly effective, a finding likely to intensify the hard-fought competition between drugmakers [...]

San Anselmo, Calif. -- Fay Zenoff recently met a friend for dinner at a sushi restaurant in Sausalito, Calif. After they were seated, a waitress asked if they'd like wine [...]

As other college students head out to party on a Saturday night, Julie Linneman, a sophomore at Villanova University, rides the subway to a small rowhouse in West Philadelphia to [...]

In declaring the opioid epidemic a public health emergency last week, President Trump promised that the federal government would start ''a massive advertising campaign to get people, especially children, not [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's bipartisan commission on the opioid crisis made dozens of final recommendations on Wednesday to combat a deadly addiction epidemic, ranging from creating more drug courts to [...]

It's a video that might elicit a lingering sense of dread and, perhaps, déjà vu. A sheriff's deputy approaches a dark blue Nissan with its door ajar in a darkened [...]

President Trump's brother died an alcoholic, so it's hard to dispute that Mr. Trump understands the horrors of addiction. But in what was billed as a major speech on Thursday, [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump on Thursday directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, taking long-anticipated action to address a rapidly [...]

The bodies turn up in public restrooms, in parks and under bridges, skin tone ashen or shades of blue. The deceased can go undiscovered, sometimes for hours, or days if [...]

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Melania Trump, a once-reluctant first lady who has lately been ramping up her travels as well as directing her aides to lash out at rivals, allowed the [...]

CONCORD, N.H. -- In the state morgue here, in the industrial maze of a hospital basement, Dr. Thomas A. Andrew was slicing through the lung of a 36-year-old woman when [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThis article was written through collaboration between The New York Times and ProPublica, the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism organization. At a time when the United States is in the [...]

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- President Trump promised again on Tuesday to tackle the growing epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States after blaming his predecessor for not doing more to [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's commission on the opioid crisis asked him Monday to declare a national emergency to deal with the epidemic. The members of the bipartisan panel called the [...]

About as many Americans are expected to die this year of drug overdoses as died in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined. For more than 100 years, death rates [...]

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. -- In his dystopian Inaugural Address, President Trump painted a picture of America as a nation gripped by vast ''carnage'' -- a landscape of ''rusted-out factories scattered [...]

Cambridge, Mass., like many cities and towns in New England and across the country, has been overwhelmed by the opioid epidemic. During a recent 146-day test period, emergency responders received [...]

Opioid addiction is America's 50-state epidemic. It courses along Interstate highways in the form of cheap smuggled heroin, and flows out of ''pill mill'' clinics where pain medicine is handed [...]

BOSTON -- Millions of Americans suffer from alcoholism or addiction to legal and illegal drugs, but only a fraction are being treated, according to a report released on Thursday by [...]

At drug treatment centers on Staten Island, the calls disturb the daily routine. The solicitations interrupt meals, counseling sessions and support groups. Sometimes, staff members say, the callers make explicit [...]

Deaths from drug overdoses have jumped in nearly every county across the United States, driven largely by an explosion in addiction to prescription painkillers and heroin. Some of the largest [...]

EARLIER this month, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida opened up on a subject he had once chided reporters for asking about: his daughter, Noelle, who, he said, ''was addicted [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMarijuana use did not increase among teenagers in the states in which medical marijuana has become legal, researchers reported Monday. The new analysis is the most comprehensive effort to [...]