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Ex-Drug Czars Bill Bennett, John Walters: Mr. Trump, please don’t legalize marijuana at the federal level

President Trump should refuse—it’s a bad deal with unsustainable consequences.

Pennsylvania man finds hope after years of addiction and despair

The flight of industry has decimated a small Pennsylvania town, and the inundation of opioids has its back against the wall – and some of the city’s men are paying the price.

Battling the despair of opioid addiction in an unexpected place

Sam Hall sat on his narrow bed, his thin frame propped up against the concrete wall, periodically glancing up from a well-worn paperback novel.

VA suicide data shows vets still desperately struggling

In 2010, Congress declared June 27 National PTSD Awareness Day.

70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in US unaccounted for since 1999, study says

The opioid crisis plaguing the U.S. may be even worse than health officials previously thought, with tens of thousands of opioid-related deaths possibly going unreported from 1999 to 2015.

Poison control centers report spike in kids' exposure to addiction drug

From 2007 to 2016, more than 11,000 children and adolescents in the U.S. were exposed to buprenorphine, a drug that's used to treat opioid-use disorders, a new study finds.

Retailers experiment with blue lights to deter drug use

The blue lights are meant to discourage people from using drugs in store bathrooms by making it more difficult for them to see their veins.

Should people with drug addictions be forced into rehab?

Mandatory drug treatment programs are on the rise. But can a person truly recover when forced into treatment?

Compulsive video-game playing now qualifies as mental health condition

The World Health Organization says some obsessive video gamers may really have an addiction.

House advances dozens of bills to combat nation's opioid crisis

The House moved last week to push through dozens of bills aimed at curtailing the nationwide opioid epidemic -- and lawmakers said they’re not done yet.