Ketamine, a fashionable drug in therapy, is becoming a nightclub drug of choice for those seeking a new form of disconnection from reality.

Every day, Windsor police encounter people openly smoking drugs in the downtown core, the city’s addiction crisis on full display.

Last year, Dr. Mark Thomas, a surgeon at the Oregon Burn Center at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, had a hunch. More and more, he noticed, patients were coming in maimed by nasty, hyperfocused burns—a ...

It started as a rumor too grotesque to believe. People, mostly young, poor, and desperate, were injecting each other’s blood to get high. In places like Fiji, that rumor has become a national crisis.

The justices will review the constitutionality of a federal prohibition on firearm possession by users of marijuana and other illegal drugs. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear the ...

Results from the latest Syringe Services Program (SSP) Health Survey reveal that, since 2021, there has been a 49 percentage point decrease in respondents injecting drugs. In 2025, 90% of respondents ...

For hundreds of years, craving has been recognized as a central causal feature of addiction and relapse in overeating, gambling, and other addictions. But what causes craving, how one ends cravings, ...

The three-year pilot program did not deliver the results hoped for, the health minister said. It had allowed drug users to avoid criminal charges for possessing small amounts of illegal substances. By ...

Almost nobody gets a stroke if they’re 20, right? Stroke has been viewed for years as a disease of aging, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and atrial fibrillation. But when a much younger ...