DRUGS

The head of a Northampton nonprofit that helps people addicted to drugs gave up his high-powered career after getting sober from opioids. Now he works to help others who are living on the streets with addiction.

UMass Amherst scientists have helped develop a wearable sensor they say can tell whether someone is taking opioid drugs.

Addiction specialists and lawmakers testified Monday on a Massachusetts bill that would end many cases of involuntary drug treatment in jail.Massachusetts…

People who were addicted to OxyContin or lost loved ones who were addicted to the drug expect very little in compensation from the multibillion-dollar Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement.

Preliminary Massachusetts Department of Public Health data show 1,038 people died of opioid overdoses in the first six months of this year, an estimated 5…

The Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, maker of one of the most widely used opioids, reached an agreement on a $4.3 billion settlement with 15…

Due to the rise in opioid overdose deaths, Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law to construct a two-year pilot harm reduction center. A place where…

After holding out for almost two years and securing additional commitments, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and her counterparts in 14 other…

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is vowing to stay in the fight against the owners of Stamford-based Purdue Pharma, despite the drugmaker...

One of the newest frontiers in mental health care is psychedelic drugs — like MDMA or psilocybin in magic mushrooms. But, for now, those drugs are illegal…