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The state department of addiction services says that up until a few months ago, our country was experiencing the worst ...

Drug policy experts in British Columbia are calling out John Rustad’s BC Conservatives for weaponizing “dehumanizing” ...

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Two former mayors of Toronto, an addiction physician and other community advocates urged Premier Doug Ford’s government to ...

If passed, Prop. 36 would reverse Proposition 47, an extensive prison and sentencing reform measure. Since its adoption ...

Street fentanyl has long been viewed as unstoppable. Now many experts say the supply of the deadly synthetic opioid is ...

Postdeparture outreach and specialized addiction medicine teams could help patients with substance use disorder, the study ...

Here's who gabapentin was originally approved for, what it's used for today and why it's becoming a drug of increasing ...

A 2023 study stressed the danger. “Substance use,” it found, was involved in more than half of Kentucky’s maternal deaths.