President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to coordinate a federal government response to drug addiction.

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Drug policy was largely a backburner issue in 2025. Despite the ambitions of some moderate or right-leaning activists, and an apparent passion ...

What’s driving the permanent crisis of drug addiction? To express the ambient feeling that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, and on its ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

MONTHS AND OLDER. OUR STATE CONTINUES TO BATTLE THE ONGOING DRUG CRISIS. KOAT U-N-M MEDICAL EXPERT DOCTOR RASH TELLS US ABOUT A LOCAL RESOURCE THAT HELPS WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION. ACCORDING ...

Interview insights explain how GLP-1R agonists access brain regions governing reward, motivation, and stress. Animal studies ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

The new initiative aims to boost awareness about drug addiction and advise federal agencies on directing grants to support ...