HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The City of Houston is cracking down on a highly addictive and deadly drug sweeping Houston. According to Mayor Sylvester Turner, the drug fentanyl or its derivative ...

A highly addictive cheap drug called kush, originating in Sierra Leone, is rapidly spreading in West Africa, according to a report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime ...

A complaint filed by two Ohio counties in federal court in Cleveland on May 27 alleges five retail pharmacy chains facilitated the opioid crisis as distributors of the highly addictive drugs, ...

In a major advance in the field of neuropsychiatry, researchers in the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University have illuminated how cocaine and amphetamines disrupt the normal ...

TALLAHASSEE — Citing an “immediate danger to the public health, safety and welfare,” Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday issued an emergency rule banning a “highly addictive” compound known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Worcester psychiatrist who previously practiced on Nantucket has been placed on probation after his 2023 conviction for ...

Federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Louise W. Flanagan to shut down Wilmington, N.C.-based pharmacy Seashore Drugs, alleging its owner and head pharmacist disregarded telltale signs of ...

Medical marijuana could soon be reclassified into a medical category that includes prescription drugs like Tylenol with ...

Opioid use during pregnancy—whether of highly addictive drugs like fentanyl or controlled opioids like buprenorphine—doubles the risk of preterm birth. A new Yale study reveals that inflammation may ...