DETROIT — As Hannah Meissner hands sterile needles, fentanyl test strips and peanut butter sandwiches to drug users inside a mobile outreach van, she fears her job helping them stay alive — and break ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Many people with opioid addictions are also dealing with mental illness. Often times, they do not receive appropriate treatment for either condition. Brittany Midolo, who ...

Sinking into and rising out of addiction has been a long journey for McAlester, Okla., native Shayne Brown-Bayird -- from ...

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Research out of UCLA is showing that regular exercise may help beat addiction to methamphetamine. Researchers who studied heavy meth users found that at least three ...

For Jane Turner, it started when she was 10 years old. "I began using food to calm myself and push my emotions away," the 62-year-old author told Mamamia. "I'd steal money and nick down to the shops ...

The opioid crisis continues to devastate the U.S. In 2021, over 107,000 people died from drug overdoses and experts say the annual economic cost of the crisis exceeds one trillion dollars. But what ...

When 36-year-old Amanda Southwick was a student at Poultney High School, she was a high achiever. Her parents recognized and supported her academic promise: they expected her to make the honor roll ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — For many, the holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year. But for others, it can be the most difficult time. The directors of RU Recovery Ministries — an ...

Imagine taking daily medications prescribed by your doctor — and enduring nausea, chills and the worst flu symptoms ever if you tried to stop. That is a growing dilemma in Minnesota as doctors treat ...