NETHER PROVIDENCE, Pa. (WPVI) -- Police in Delaware County say they are using the drug Narcan, an antidote to heroin overdose, with more effectiveness than ever before. Case in point, two recent ...

Mount Sinai researchers have found that a brain region that is implicated extensively in value-based decision-making and craving in people with heroin use disorder – known as the orbitofrontal cortex ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Hasse is a cannabis and psychedelics reporter and book author. The conversation around drugs has long been framed by cost.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tee tried heroin at 16 when a boyfriend crushed it into powder and passed it off as prescription pills. When Tee sniffed it, she ...

A new study found that people who regularly used cocaine or heroin in the past experience music in a different way. This might seem strange, but it all has to do with dopamine. Part of what makes ...

The number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000 over a decade, with the bulk of the increase among whites, according to a new government report. Experts think the increase was driven by ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Until we stop framing all drug use and every overdose as problems of “addiction” and “substance use disorders,” we ...

The past few years have seen an explosion of heroin abuse and deaths from opiate overdose. But little is known about the molecular underpinnings of heroin addiction. A new study in Biological ...