The proposed overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services could weaken and possibly eliminate a little-known agency that's crucial in helping Americans who struggle with their mental health or with addiction.

The U.S. government did not pay the more than $3.6 million due to the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2024, making good on a long-running threat anchored in unhappiness with the global watchdog’s handling of cases involving Chinese swimmers and others.

In an April 12 story about the emerging drug threat designation for substances containing xylazine and fentanyl, The Associated Press erroneously described the group Drug Policy Alliance as advocating the harm caused by drugs.

The Biden administration is planning to reverse longstanding policy and allow the use of Medicaid to treat jail and prison inmates' substance use disorders and certain other health conditions.

The White House says President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union address to call for new steps to help veterans and cancer patients, fight drug addition and provide more access to mental health care.

New government data suggests U.S. overdose deaths have stopped rising, but many experts are urging caution.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress.

West Virginia will receive $99 million in a settlement finalized with Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. The state filed a lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of contributing to the opioid crisis in the state that's led the nation in overdose deaths.

Lawyers for the state of West Virginia are concluding the first week of a trial against three major opioid makers.

The new White House drug czar has testified that the opioid epidemic got so bad in drug-ravaged West Virginia that the state was having trouble finding foster parents to care for children.

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel offloaded Thursday more than 30 metric tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $1 billion that was seized at sea during a months-long deployment off the coast of South America.

The Biden administration says a government grant program to help prevent additional harm to people who use illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth.

President Joe Biden is nominating West Virginia’s former health commissioner as the nation’s top anti-drug official, tapping a doctor who served on the front lines of the nation’s opioid epidemic.

"The 2018 general fertility rate fell to another all-time low for the United States," the researchers wrote in the report, published Wednesday. The report found that the general fertility rate dropped 2% between 2017 and 2018 among girls and women age 15 to 44 nationwide. America's fertility rate and the number of births nationwide have been on the decline in recent years. However, it does not fully explain the increase in the preterm birth rate. "There is a lot more work that needs to be done as the preterm birth rate continues to rise."