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 ...

A good place to start supporting these things is with the proposed Multnomah County ordinance that would ban mobile needle ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Mayor Karen Bass said she opposed needle handouts but The Post witnessed city-funded outreach workers still distributing ...

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 ...

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 ...