In his Washington office Harry Jacob Anslinger keeps a sinister collection of heroin, opium pipes, and other paraphernalia seized by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, which he organized in 1930 and has ...

THE first teen-age narcotics users in the neighborhood of the Henry Street Settlement on New York‘s Lower East Side were not the newcomers to the area. They belonged to the older families, Irish, ...

In recent years we've heard a lot about efforts in various states to force people on welfare to take drug tests. The putative idea behind this is that taxpayers might be subsidizing addicts' drug ...

The war is probably the best thing that ever happened to U.S. drug addicts. By shutting off the sources, chiefly Asiatic, of smuggled dope (morphine, heroin, opium and derivatives), the war in Asia ...

For two days, Anthony sat in the parking lot of Christiana Hospital, unsure of what would greet him behind the emergency room doors. It was late April or early May, and he’d put off seeking treatment ...

For nine years, Shawn Sinisi had battled a drug addiction he said was rooted in the boyhood trauma of being sexually abused by serial child molester Jerry Sandusky. For his parents, it had been nine ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Drug addiction continues to plague Memphis and the Mid-South. For years, the monster of drug addiction consumed Ben Owen. “I finally hit rock bottom in 2019. My wife and I were ...