Addiction

She started using drugs at 16. After moving around the country and trying to quit several times, she came back to St. Louis four years later, hoping for a…

For years after he got out of the Navy, Joel Bishop took morphine twice a day.He used four or five Percocet in between those doses.“I lived around that…

A St. Louis nonprofit is sending outreach workers to city streets to dispense life-saving treatment from a newly refurbished ambulance.The Missouri…

When David Patterson Silver Wolf refers to the U.S. opioid epidemic as part of a “disease of despair” and “a tough disease to treat,” he’s speaking from…

A coalition of six medical organizations has recommended that hospital doctors take more caution when prescribing opioids for patients with pain.To cut…

A St. Louis theater troupe is using a play that highlights drug addiction in the mid-1950s to combat the opioid crisis of today.This weekend, the Slaying…

Updated at 3:45 p.m., Sept. 20, with comments from Surgeon General Jerome Adams — A nationwide campaign is needed to combat the opioid abuse epidemic that…

The World Health Organization recently announced that digital gaming can be addictive. The type of addiction falls under gaming disorder, which is…

St. Louis health officials want to add addiction treatment to the region’s health program for low-income people without insurance.The Missouri Department…

St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared the opioid epidemic in the county a public health emergency and endorsed a plan to have public health…