The president wants to enforce involuntary commitment laws for severe drug use. But rehab is expensive, without enough beds for those who seek it. By Jan Hoffman The sight is increasingly common: ...

A year prior, the Biden administration gave different reasons for the start of the overdose deaths decline, describing its work to distribute more of the opioid-overdose reversing drug naloxone, ...

Last year’s Proposition 36, which increased penalties on certain drug and property offenses, did so by convincing millions of voters that their initiative would help those struggling with addiction.

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Police countywide arrested hundreds of repeat drug offenders in the months after California ...

Supporters of Proposition 36 pitched the tough-on-crime measure, which California voters overwhelmingly approved in November, as an urgent solution to compel people struggling with addiction into ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

This month’s mass overdose in West Baltimore underscored the need to expand drug treatment and harm reduction services, addiction specialists say. But efforts to build out services addressing the ...

People huddle in a doorway next to the city's Medical Respite & Sobering Center near Eight and Mission streets on April 10, 2025. Photo by Gustavo Hernandez. When Theris Coats failed to make it from ...