Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The director of the National Institutes of Health gave a ringing endorsement to the nation’s top addiction researcher, Nora Volkow, this week ...

David Sheff wrote a beautiful book called, appropriately enough, Beautiful Boy — A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction, one of the most compelling portrayals I've ever read of a ...

Smokers with diabetes or obesity who take semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) might reap an added benefit: Help in quitting smoking. A yearlong study found that, compared to people using other diabetes drugs ...

National Institute on Drug director Nora Volkow warns cannabis marketing mirrors tactics from alcohol and tobacco, targeting elderly adults. Volkow urges more research on cannabis risks, citing ...

Today's teens are less likely to be taking drugs than their predecessors, a survey says. The 2016 Monitoring the Future survey showed a continuing decline in the use of illicit substances -- marijuana ...

Thousands fewer people in the U.S. are dying from drug overdoses. Public health data from around the country shows the first big sustained drop in fatal overdoses since the opioid crisis began decades ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Opioid use disorder can be a contributing factor to Americans landing in the nation's prisons and jails, but those inmates typically have no access to medications that could help wean them off the ...

If you were to give me a drug right now like heroin, crystal meth or speed I wouldn't have any idea where I would wind up. In four hours I would have just as good a chance of being in a crack hotel in ...