Earlier this month, a video of Alexa went viral where she detailed the horrors of living on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed details about his past drug addiction during an appearance ...

President Trump's executive order on homelessness aims to make it easier for states and cities to get people into mental health or addiction treatment, even if that means involuntary civil commitment.

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As weight-loss drugs like Ozempic revolutionize weight loss, scientists hope they may also be life-changing for alcohol addiction. The drugs are one of several approaches doctors and psychiatrists ...

When people jokingly say they have a “drug of choice,” they’re implying a particular substance matches their emotional and psychological needs. They don’t realize they’re right: There are drugs of ...

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 ...

A vast majority of American adults say they have consumed alcohol at some point — yet experts warn that alcoholic beverages could be a "gateway drug" to more harmful substances. More than 84% of ...

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 ...