SOME THINK IT'S A HARMLESS SUPPLEMENT -- BUT OFFICIALS -- ARE CALLING IT GAS STATION HEROIN.KRATOM CAN BE FOUND ON MOST ...

The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called “gas station heroin,” as a controlled substance—a boon for MAHA and the mainstream kratom industry.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chrissy Reifschneider had just left rehab to treat her heroin addiction in 2017 when she started taking tianeptine, popularly ...

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 ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

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.

Police recovered three pistols, six magazines, four live cartridges, two sharp-edged weapons, 760 grams of heroin and ₹2.5 ...

NCB seized heroin worth over ₹25 crore near the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. One suspect has been arrested.