My daughter lived through a drug overdose in April ["A raw sensitivity beneath the jokes," News, Aug. 12]. Afterward, she went to The New Direction in Walton, N.Y., a center for counseling and ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to open recovery high schools to help teens struggling with heroin addiction. Coumo said many teen addicts leave recovery and are offered drugs the ...

The app, made available by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, provides 24/7 resources for people experiencing addiction.

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT)– Lenoir County SPCA’s Rescue Coordinator Tiffinie Jarmin, is creating a new program for those in addiction recovery. She said that the idea came from her own experience as a ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Substance abuse disorder and mental health struggles often go hand-in-hand, according to the National Insitutes of Health. To get off a substance is a trying process -- which ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- A state lawmaker from San Francisco is proposing a radically different approach to address meth addiction by making California the first state to pay people to get and stay ...