You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Michael Seminetta, a recovering heroin addict, is riding his bike from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, to raise ...

In response to the opioid crisis, Garden City-based nonprofit Family & Children’s Association (FCA) opened THRIVE Suffolk, Long Island’s first recovery community and outreach center, in Hauppauge in ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday lamented a nationwide “spiritual malaise” as he unveiled new plans to tackle the nation’s ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A local addiction services provider is honoring those who lost their lives to addiction and the people who are in recovery. So far this year, there have been 253 reports of ...

Chrissy Reifschneider had just left rehab to treat her heroin addiction in 2017 when she started taking tianeptine, popularly dubbed “gas station heroin." The 41-year-old from Alabama was struggling ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Michael Seminetta, a recovering ...