Explore the link between mental health struggles and substance abuse in the Black community, including the importance of seeking help and support.

Historically, addiction in Black communities has been criminalized rather than treated as a health condition. This criminalization, rooted in systemic racism, ...

While white and Black people report roughly the same rates of illicit drug use, ... Black people with opioid addiction have historically been directed to programs that offer methadone, ...

Yet Woodyear, who is Black and practices in a town that is 31 percent Black, says his patients are 90 percent white. People come to the clinic through word of mouth or referrals from friends.

For white patients, the median treatment duration was about 53 days; for Black patients, about 44 days; and for Hispanic patients, less than 40. “There’s no debate here. Fifty days is not long ...

In these communities, Black drug users are no more a medical anomaly than white drug users, and yet due to the low density, they can’t help but stand out. As Luke, a 25-old Black man in our ...

Black people are far less likely than other Americans to receive buprenorphine, a key medication for treating opioid use disorder, according to a new study. White patients in need of addiction ...

Black and Hispanic patients receive shorter addiction medication treatment than white patients, according to a study published Nov. 9 in JAMA Psychiatryry. The study looked at the duration of ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard.Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

Black men in California are 42% more likely, and Latino men 32.5% more likely, to be sentenced to prison than white men with similar criminal records and convictions.