A medication offered to heroin abusers at the Albany County jail was shown to help prevent addicts from returning to illegal drug use, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England ...

Nationally, the heroin overdose death rate increased 286 percent from 2002 to 2013. Arlene Gonzalez-Sanchez, commissioner of the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, said it's ...

Ziyad Al-Aly receives funding from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 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 his ...