Drugs don’t just kill nearly 39,000 Americans each year—they kill them young. That’s the grim takeaway of a new chart by drug treatment website withdrawal.net, which plots the number of Americans ...

If you believe that brand-name prescription drug prices are out of control, you're probably not alone. Prescription drug costs have been soaring at a pace that's far beyond the rate of inflation for ...

Medicare spent $143 billion on drugs last year -- a sum that pushed drug spending up from 10 percent of the total budget in 2010 to 14 percent last year. On Monday, federal health officials released a ...

Though federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have waged war on drugs for more than 40 years, few people appear to know the size or actual contours of drug use in this country, and the ...

According to The Economic Impact of Illicit Drug Use on American Society, last published by the Department of Justice in 2011, enforcing illegal drug laws imposes an annual cost on the American ...

MARSHALL, Texas — The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is alerting parents of codes their children could be using to score drugs. The DEA has released a guide, as part of their #OnePillCanKill campaign, ...

In 2022, new records were set for drug overdose casualties in Athens, with the total deaths reaching 60. The largest number of those deaths were attributed to fatal doses of fentanyl, a synthetic ...

There's a reason the television show The Wire wasn't just called "The Cops vs. Drug Dealers Show." Law enforcement's surveillance in America—and particularly its ever-increasing use of wiretaps—have ...

A burst of new drug approvals at the FDA just before Christmas pushed the total to 41 for 2014, the fastest pace in the past 18 years and a fresh sign that at least a few of the lead players have ...

Rebuilding lives that are torn apart by drug addiction requires special care. Lock-up is not the answer to help many of those struggling individuals get back on track--and stay there. That's where ...

Prescription drug price inflation has outpaced the Consumer Price Index by more than 150 percentage points over the past decade. If you believe that brand-name prescription drug prices are out of ...