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

This medicine to treat opioid addiction is hard to come by — only a fraction of doctors can prescribe it. So some people trying to quit a heroin habit are turning to the black market for help.

Originally white and middle class, victims are now Black and brown people struggling with long-term addictions and too few resources. During 10 brutal years, opioid and stimulant deaths have ...

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 ...

Even though they use cannabis at similar rates, for instance, Black people were nearly four times more likely to be arrested for cannabis possession than White people in 2018.

Black people with opioid addiction have historically been directed to programs that offer methadone, an effective but tightly regulated medication. It typically requires daily trips to a clinic to ...

Black, now 46, fell into addiction about four years after his parents, aerospace engineers Judith Love and Thomas Black, divorced when he was 10. “I remember just lots of turmoil from that time ...

DESPITE THIS DICHOTOMY, several stories of Black addiction have emerged in recent years. Novels such as Mitchell S. Jackson’s “The Residue Years” (2013) and Angela Flournoy’s “The Turner ...

Rural Black people have the highest poverty rates among rural residents, at 30% vs.12% poverty among rural whites. Rural Black people also have higher rates of mental illness, cardiovascular ...

Drug overdose deaths among Black Bostonians fell by nearly 60% in 2024, halting a years-long rise in mortality. A broader ...

America is facing a deadly drug epidemic, but there is hope. Research shows 75% of people with addiction survive and go on to live full lives, especially if they get good treatment.