Substance Abuse

Missouri played a key role in meth’s spread. A new podcast tells that story.

Barbara Baker spent 15 years in prison — but found a way to change her life. Now, she fights to make it easier for other women to do the same.

Black Alcohol/Drug Service Information Center will provide drug and alcohol counseling and care to Black neighborhoods in north St. Louis on a mobile treatment center.

Some in public health now argue that when providers use such monitoring programs to cut off prescription opiate misuse, people who have an addiction instead turn to heroin and fentanyl.

A program at St. Patrick Center that houses at-risk homeless women in St. Louis has been in a precarious position in recent years, but an influx of federal funding has allowed it to expand its capacity.

Gateway to Better Health, a health care program for poor and uninsured people in St. Louis, will soon cover treatment for people addicted to opioids and…

In the midst of a nationwide opioid epidemic among U.S. adults, one organization in the St. Louis region is seeing some more positive trends among younger…

The Mardi Gras crowd was thinning out, and drunk revelers zigzagged in the middle of the street, kicking cans and shivering in the 35-degree weather. As…