People recovering from addiction will be part of a new pilot project that will see them picking up discarded needles in Cambridge. It will launch at the end of February and is being run by Region of ...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A secluded corner surrounded by litter and makeshift structures on the outskirts of South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of people with drug addiction. They inject ...

“The last time I gave myself an injection, the needle held heroin,” writes Healthland’s Maia Szalavitz in an honest, insightful essay that appears on the new addiction and recovery-themed site The Fix ...

Belfast Magistrates Court heard Ross Coady was stopped by police on patrol in the city centre on September 11 this year. The 31-year-old, from Margaret Street in Londonderry, admitted a charge of ...

EUREKA, Calif. — The dirty needles can be found scattered among the pine and brush, littering the forest floor around Eureka, a town long celebrated as a gateway to the scenic Redwood Empire. They are ...

A recent University of Washington (UW) survey found that the number of respondents reporting injecting drugs in a given year ...

Hollywood and much of the Western world was shocked by the sudden passing of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in February of 2014. Reports rapidly circulated that Hoffman, 46, was found dead from an ...

A KILREA man found by police asleep in a car in Ballymena with a used hypodermic needle lying beside him has admitted a charge of being in possession of heroin. A KILREA man found by police asleep in ...

We hear so much about the opioid problem and how it destroys families and lives. But what is it like to actually be a person addicted to pain pills and then switching to heroin? Doug Bisher from ...