Nobody chooses to be an addict – it is just something that happens to some people. When it comes to drugs, the person ...

New psychoactive substances, or legal highs as they are more commonly known, are a growing problem in the UK as more and...

The important thing to understand about addiction is that it is an illness; nobody chooses to develop an addiction. Addi...

Moderate drinking is socially acceptable, but the problem for some is that moderate drinking soon becomes habitual drink...

The parents of a Belfast teenager who was found lying on grass in a housing estate have called for legal highs to be ban...

A drug dealer who fled from the police and threw away a carrier bag full of drugs has been jailed for two years and eigh...

Frontman of Canadian rock band Sum 41, Deryck Whibley, has spoken out of his brush with death caused by alcohol abuse. W...

The heartbroken mother of an American teenager has taken to Facebook to highlight the dangers of drugs to other youngste...

Heroin addiction is often treated with methadone, which is a synthetic drug designed to wean people off the more powerfu...

Addiction problems cost the taxpayer billions of pounds every year. Money is spent on addiction related injuries, illnes...