Addiction

A doctor from Martinsville, Virginia, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for illegally prescribing opioids to his patients.

A recent report from BuzzFeed News reveals that while Facebook claims that it helps individuals with opioid addictions, hashtags on the Facebook-owned Instagram platform related to addictions are filled with drug dealers offering their services.

Combating drug addiction is a personal matter for several members of the Trump administration, said Drug Czar Jim Carroll.

Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.

A WalletHub report released on Monday shows the District of Columbia ranked number one in the nation for drug problems.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that he will introduce legislation banning common game-industry practices that “prey on user addiction.”

Drug Czar Jim Carroll told Breitbart News that “93 percent of heroin” in the country “comes from Mexico” ahead of National Takeback Day.

“We’re doing everything to empower ourselves so that we can keep this poison out of communities and away from our children,” he said.

Eric Bolling told Breitbart News that he “hates being the face” of a series of town hall events examining  opioid abuse, but is “saving lives.”

First Lady Melania Trump praised and awarded youth at a conference of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition (CADCA) in National Harbor, Maryland, Thursday hailing them as “our greatest agents for change.”

San Francisco has more intravenous drug users than high school students, according to a San Francisco news outlet. “Injection drug users” outweigh high schoolers by more than 50 percent according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff claimed Facebook is the “new cigarettes” and should be regulated as such in an interview on Wednesday, doubling down on similar comments he made earlier this year.

A father in North Carolina took his wrath out on an employee at a local McDonalds for allegedly selling his son methamphetamine, according to a video of the incident.

The Ventura Police Department posted a video to their Facebook page, encouraging locals to give to charities rather than offer money directly to the poor.

Walmart pharmacies will restrict some opioid prescriptions to just seven days at a time and will allow no more than a 50-milligram dosage of morphine per day.

The average American’s life expectancy dropped between 2015 and 2016 as the epidemic of U.S. citizens overdosing on opioids hit a record high of more than 63,000 deaths in 2016.

“As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue,” Trump said. “It is time to liberate our communities from this scourge of drug addiction. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.”

President Donald Trump will declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, according to a senior administration official.

President Donald Trump announced that he planned to declare the national opioid crisis a “state of emergency,” allowing the release of federal funds to help combat the alarming rate of overdose deaths and addictions.“I’m saying officially right now it is

The FBI conducted raids last week on Sovereign Health behavioral health treatment centers in California and the San Clemente home of its CEO Dr. Tonmoy Sharma, whose U.K. medical license was revoked for serious professional misconduct.Sovereign Health facilities in San

A man and woman were found dead in their Pennsylvania home after their seven-year-old daughter told school officials that her parents wouldn’t wake up, police said.

President Obama and rapper Macklemore discussed drug addiction during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: THE PRESIDENT: Hi, everybody. I’ve got a special guest with me this week – Macklemore. For those of you who don’t share the same love[i]

BENNETT: The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act now before Congress is based on a lie — that drug dealing is not a violent crime. Americans have been told this lie for years even as we witness the violence and death caused by drug dealers in our communities. Now, this lie is propelling legislation through Congress that will destroy more lives.

On Tuesday, Utah became the first state in the country to designate pornography a “public health” issue.

Actor Terry Crews detailed his life-long battle with an addiction to pornography and revealed how it almost derailed his marriage in a three-part video series posted to Facebook.

In a moving moment at Saturday night’s ABC News presidential debate, candidate Sen. Ted Cruz shared the story of his half-sister’s battle with drug addiction in the context of the overarching problem of addiction in the United States.Moderator David Muir referenced comment

New Jersey governor and presidential candidate Chris Christie has previously spoken about drug addiction, and urged treatment instead of incarceration, but his Wednesday comments on the subject to a meeting in New Hampshire were especially moving.

A study from Plymouth University and Queensland University of Technology, Australia claims that playing Tetris can diminish desires for food, smoking, alcohol, and even sex.

A new university study claims that one in eight people suffer an addiction to their smart phone.