The United States is losing the New Opium War with China. Leaders in Washington, D.C. appear unwilling to acknowledge that a fight even exists. A crisis of addiction in China in the 19th century, ...

(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 ...

I wrote this the day before actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died from a heroin overdose, or as screenwriter and recovering addict Aaron Sorkin more accurately put it, “He did not die from an overdose of ...

Once a village youth battling addiction, Jobanjit Singh alias Billa became a wanted gangster, accused of murder and extortion ...

About six miles south of The Jewish Museum in New York, where an exhibit on the Jewish British merchant family, the Sassoons, is on view until Aug. 13, lies Chinatown’s Chatham Square. In the center ...

Opiate addiction is a growing concern across the globe, affecting millions of individuals and their families. While many are aware of the dangers associated with illegal drugs, fewer people recognize ...

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Officials in Hennepin and Ramsey County are using buprenorphine, a medication to treat opiate withdrawals symptoms that affect a growing number of Minnesotans. More cities are taking notice. As a ...

Jamie Lee Curtis has been "clean and sober" for a quarter of a century — and she marked the milestone on social media on Saturday. "25 years clean and sober. One day at a time. 9,125 of them," the ...