A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for ...

Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some complications of substance-use disorders.

ORLANDO, FL - March 02, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - WhiteSands Treatment Center has published a new educational resource on ...

Last year’s Proposition 36, which increased penalties on certain drug and property offenses, did so by convincing millions of voters that their initiative would help those struggling with addiction.

This month’s mass overdose in West Baltimore underscored the need to expand drug treatment and harm reduction services, addiction specialists say. But efforts to build out services addressing the ...

The president wants to enforce involuntary commitment laws for severe drug use. But rehab is expensive, without enough beds for those who seek it. By Jan Hoffman The sight is increasingly common: ...