Studies show that ibogaine can be effective for short-term opioid addiction treatment, especially reducing drug cravings and some withdrawal symptoms.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prescribing heroin to chronic addicts may be politically sensitive, but it is more effective than the substitute methadone at keeping drug abusers in treatment programmes, British ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The latest figures on heroin show the number of first time users in this country has increased by 60 percent over the last decade to 156,000. Addiction experts say once hooked ...

About 100 people — mostly local drug addicts — gathered at a pagoda in Phnom Penh in mid-February. A few drug users had brought their families for support, and they sat together on woven mats before a ...

Heroin was once the scourge of the urban poor, but today the typical user is a young, white suburbanite, a study finds. And the path to addiction usually starts with prescription painkillers. A survey ...

(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a speech at the Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that ...

Russell Brand built a career on reinvention, but this video looks back at the chaos that came first. From heroin addiction at ...

Thea Gajić’s debut is an assured, intelligent drama of a father’s endless quest for contentment outside his heroin dependency ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. I’d been out shoplifting, and hadn’t been able to find anything to sell ...