Heroin Addiction

Two people recovering from heroin addiction told the BBC that they nearly died after taking the new drugs.

A 22-year-old auto driver from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama has finally overcome his drug addiction after two years of struggle. The two years of heroin addiction shattered his life and his family.

"This game is like heroin," said Lorrine Marer, a British behavioural specialist who works with kids battling game addiction.

From the ruling Congress, to the opposition AAP, politicians in Punjab are lining up to take dope tests in an attempt to prove they are serious about fighting the drug menace in the state. This comes after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh earlier this week ordered bureaucrats in the state to get themselves tested.

Fisher died at age 60 on December 27, four days after she went into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She had a long history of cocaine addiction in the 1980s

Brenden Clark sat across from his 8-year-old son at a picnic table in northeastern Ohio, preparing to deliver devastating news.

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to 10 years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs one lakh on him for possessing 500 grams heroin after considering that he was carrying commercial quantity of the banned drug and its impact on the youth.

Inhaling a tiny bit of melted brown powder off a strip of aluminium foil made me feel god-like. It was homecoming, it was completion, it was Kevlar for the soul. Nothing from the real world got through that. Not fear or sorrow or disappointment (nor joy or meaning either, but at the time I didn't care about all that).

A heroin "epidemic" is gripping the United States, where cheap supply has helped push the number of users to a 20-year high, increasing drug-related deaths, the United Nations said today.

In villages along the India-Pakistan International Border, a thriving form of employment is to ferry drugs between the two countries. Packed in plastic bags and camouflaged in mud, transporting a kilo of heroin across the border fetches Rs 50,000 a lucrative proposition especially for the unemployed.

Addicts in a new study at the University of Houston will strap on virtual reality headsets and navigate a "heroin cave" to help them try and kick their addictions.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came to the small town of Plymouth in the New Hampshire mountains on Sunday and promised to lower prescription drug prices, improve education and help heroin addicts get treatment.

More people died of drug overdoses last year in the United States than ever before, largely due to disturbing increases in prescription painkillers and heroin use, health authorities said Friday.

In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 per cent) of women and a third (38 per cent) of men reported doctor-prescribed painkillers as their first contact with opioid drugs, a family of drugs which include prescription medicines such OxyContin and codeine, as well as illicit drugs such as her...

There is one thing Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state, admits she has learned running for president: a heroin and painkiller epidemic is ravaging US communities, and it's getting worse.

Two people recovering from heroin addiction told the BBC that they nearly died after taking the new drugs.

A 22-year-old auto driver from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama has finally overcome his drug addiction after two years of struggle. The two years of heroin addiction shattered his life and his family.

"This game is like heroin," said Lorrine Marer, a British behavioural specialist who works with kids battling game addiction.

From the ruling Congress, to the opposition AAP, politicians in Punjab are lining up to take dope tests in an attempt to prove they are serious about fighting the drug menace in the state. This comes after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh earlier this week ordered bureaucrats in the state to get themselves tested.

Fisher died at age 60 on December 27, four days after she went into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles. She had a long history of cocaine addiction in the 1980s

Brenden Clark sat across from his 8-year-old son at a picnic table in northeastern Ohio, preparing to deliver devastating news.

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to 10 years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs one lakh on him for possessing 500 grams heroin after considering that he was carrying commercial quantity of the banned drug and its impact on the youth.

Inhaling a tiny bit of melted brown powder off a strip of aluminium foil made me feel god-like. It was homecoming, it was completion, it was Kevlar for the soul. Nothing from the real world got through that. Not fear or sorrow or disappointment (nor joy or meaning either, but at the time I didn't care about all that).

A heroin "epidemic" is gripping the United States, where cheap supply has helped push the number of users to a 20-year high, increasing drug-related deaths, the United Nations said today.

In villages along the India-Pakistan International Border, a thriving form of employment is to ferry drugs between the two countries. Packed in plastic bags and camouflaged in mud, transporting a kilo of heroin across the border fetches Rs 50,000 a lucrative proposition especially for the unemployed.

Addicts in a new study at the University of Houston will strap on virtual reality headsets and navigate a "heroin cave" to help them try and kick their addictions.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump came to the small town of Plymouth in the New Hampshire mountains on Sunday and promised to lower prescription drug prices, improve education and help heroin addicts get treatment.

More people died of drug overdoses last year in the United States than ever before, largely due to disturbing increases in prescription painkillers and heroin use, health authorities said Friday.

In the study involving over 500 patients in Canada, the researchers found that more than half (52 per cent) of women and a third (38 per cent) of men reported doctor-prescribed painkillers as their first contact with opioid drugs, a family of drugs which include prescription medicines such OxyContin and codeine, as well as illicit drugs such as her...

There is one thing Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state, admits she has learned running for president: a heroin and painkiller epidemic is ravaging US communities, and it's getting worse.