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DEAR ABBY: My fiancee and I have been arguing almost every day. We have been verbally and emotionally hurting each other. I love her very much, but sh...

YORK — To fight prescription drug misuse, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day creates convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwi...

HARRISBURG — Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Secretary Dr. Latika Davis-Jones joined the Pennsylvania Lottery, the Pennsylvania Gaming ...

(TNS) With the rise of obesity drugs a pair of Penn State researchers set out to answer a question: could drugs aimed at weight loss help battle opioi...

Those concerns now appear more valid than ever. State and local governments are receiving $50 billion to combat the opioid epidemic after successful l...

McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reported the McKean County Detective Bureau received credible information that an extreme...

OLEAN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College recently received approval to offer credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselor training for ...

America’s deadliest threat isn’t a foreign army or terrorist cell — it’s a synthetic opioid devastating communities across the nation. Fentanyl is the...

DUKE CENTER — ThinkFast Interactive, in partnership with State Farm Insurance, will present its innovative, interactive and experiential program for s...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Depending on where you live and how you want to use it, it is pretty easy to get marijuana in the U.S. At first medical marijuana, wh...

COUDERSPORT — Break the Chains Coalition has moved its Eighth Annual BTC Festival to Coudersport’s town square July 26 and 27. Opening with a prayer o...

There is so much concern for the tender sensitivities of a former drug addict from Delaware. It’s incredibly touching how the media, and Biden support...

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has a silly solution for a serious problem. Scores of customers at local casinos continue to leave kids locked i...

PHILADELPHIA — Throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, certain counties, particularly in the Appalachian region, are experiencing disproportionat...

STIGMA: Today just so happens to be International Overdose Awareness Day, serving as a stark reminder of the harm that drugs inflict on our society — ...

Growing up in Bradford years ago, Mark Orris learned the importance of helping others. Orris, son of Ron and Teri Orris of Kennedy Street, has been wi...

The next installment of the Guidance Center’s Substance Use Awareness Series, All About Methamphetamine and Cocaine, will take place Wednesday, June 2...

The ongoing opioid addiction crisis began with excessive distribution of a new generation of effective opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin. But with...

#ADDICTION AWARENESS: 1 in 3 Pennsylvanians say influencers are strong advocates for addiction awareness, and three out of four parents would prefer t...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. Such rates reportedly...