Most hospitals typically test people for drugs that drove overdoses 15 to 20 years ago. We need a national system for expanded testing to help patients get the treatment they need today
A recent examination of Vivitrol’s clinical trial data uncovered many hidden overdoses. Its preferential use in the criminal justice system must stop
More than 100,000 Americans die every year from drug overdoses. We should warn people in real time about dangerous adulterants in the illicit drug market
Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well as shed pounds.
Researchers used a smoking machine to test the intensity of marijuana rolled into joints
A new pill could be the first to help the more than 14 million people in the U.S. who struggle to control their marijuana use
A huge Danish study shows that up to 30 percent of psychosis diagnoses in young men could have been prevented if these individuals hadn’t used marijuana heavily
Medication treatment for heroin addiction has come a long way since its pioneer died. But what would she think of the field today?
Requiring a prescription for all forms of naloxone holds the overdose-reversing medication hostage, kept from millions of Americans who should carry it in their purses and back pockets
In the 1970s Marie Nyswander thought that she had finally found a long-term treatment for heroin addiction, but not everyone agreed—including some of the people she was trying to help...
In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist”...
A recent Food and Drug Administration decision that makes naloxone available without a prescription may increase the drug’s accessibility. But cost could be a barrier
A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help—about something else entirely
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned about the dangers of xylazine, but Narcan (naloxone) can still save people’s life during an overdose
In the first episode of Season Five of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we meet a young doctor who, in 1946, was posted to Kentucky’s Narcotic Farm
Antibiotics won’t work on the virus that causes COVID, but in places like India, their overuse threatens to nullify their effects on other equally deadly pathogens
The candy-colored drugs are the latest Halloween scare, but history suggests such fears are overblown
An ideal federal marijuana policy would reduce arrests while supporting a highly regulated marketplace
By ruling in favor of two doctors accused of running pill mills, SCOTUS is clarifying opioid prescription practices
The Supreme Court will consider a case that has had a chilling effect on medical practice
