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Treatment works, and recovery is possible, Sheryl Maxfield writes, adding that cost should never stand in the way of treatment.

Debbie Willis placed her hand over her 29-year-old sons heart knowing there was nothing that could save him, Jack Shuler said.

The opioid crisis is a scourge that has claimed far too many lives but we are not powerless to fight it. Local experts will discuss solutions.

Doctors and emergency rooms across the country have sounded the alarm on the spike in psychosis, suicidal ideation, actual suicide, schizophrenia, and addiction-like behavior they have seen among young people using high-potency marijuana. 

Last year, the number of overdose deaths in the United States exceeded 100,000 for the first time ever. Equally alarming, the rate of drug-related overdose deaths among U.S. teenagers...

Boston has its first chief of behavioral health. Meet Dr. Kevin Simon. Read more on Boston.com.

With THC levels close to 100 percent, today’s cannabis products are making some teenagers highly dependent and dangerously ill.

Elysse was 14 when she first started vaping cannabis. It did not smell, which made it easy to hide from her parents.

[For a first-person account of this program, see www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.220649][1] KEY POINTS Between January 2016 and June 2021, 24 626 people died from opioid toxicity in Canada.[1][2] A key driver of this ongoing public health crisis has been the infiltration of illicitly

Drug-checking services allow people to check whats in their drugs prior to use, mitigating the risk of overdose.