The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called “gas station heroin,” as a controlled ...

They overdosed on heroin they thought was cocaine or methamphetamine.

Burma destroyed over 50 tons of narcotics worth $600 million to mark the United Nations' International Day Against Drug Abuse ...

A monoclonal antibody that targets heroin is effective in blocking the psychoactive and lethal effects of this drug of abuse in mice—offering a new strategy for heroin addiction and overdose treatment ...

Officers recovered drugs during multiple property checks at Elm and Franklin streets and arrested a 47-year-old man, police ...

Anyone who takes opioids can develop opioid use disorder (OUD), which includes addiction, whether they take prescription opioids or illegal opioids such as heroin. However, treatment and support are ...

Federal and local authorities nationwide now consider heroin to be the biggest drug epidemic in the country. Not methamphetamines or cocaine, heroin. Dealers, connected to Mexican drug cartels, are ...

As overdose deaths have broken records year after year in the U.S., a group of researchers has looked around the world for new treatment options to try and has landed on a counterintuitive method. A ...

A new study published in JAMA reports that many more adult Americans are using heroin than 20 years before. Earlier studies have shown a startling sevenfold increase in illnesses and deaths directly ...

Heroin belongs to a class of drugs that scientists call opioids. People who use the drug may be at risk of developing certain infections, such as wound botulism, infective endocarditis, and tetanus.

Newlyweds, honor students and executives are just a few of the lives lost to overdoses so far in 2017 Alexandra Rockey Fleming is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been covering breaking news, ...

Australian police have arrested a Thai airline employee for allegedly importing over a kilogram of heroin into Melbourne ...