We are all familiar with the word “addict.” It is used so casually that many people no longer hear the harm inside it. I am ...

Millions of older adults in the United States take benzodiazepines or zolpidem-based sleep aids to manage anxiety and ...

Sharon Stone opens up about trying to live a drug-free life, working with her son Roan and dreams of Broadway.

Treatment-resistant depression drug Xanamem has produced statistically significant antidepressant effects in a peer-reviewed ...

Eli Lilly's acquisition of psychedelic drug maker AtaiBeckley extends Big Pharma's embrace of a stigmatized class of ...

But after a year, she discovered the pills were actually Zopiclone, a prescription drug designed for short-term use. In that ...

The greatest therapeutic effects of psychedelics appear to occur long after the drug is gone. New research suggests they ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol in a way that's previously only been ...

Health experts are raising the alarm on kratom-derived 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, products.At its annual House of ...

Experts say concentrated forms can be far more potent than kratom. Lucas County reported two deaths attributed to 7-OH in ...

Continuing antidepressants should involve periodic reassessment rather than an indefinite series of automatic refills.

Nationally, overdose deaths are falling. But not in Arizona. Source: Times analysis of C.D.C. data. Drug deaths in the U.S.