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More than 70 percent of people who abuse prescription pain relievers obtain the drugs from friends or relatives, usually with permission and for free, according to a government study to be released on Wednesday.

Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic....

Centers like City Without Drugs employ a detoxification and rehabilitation program that would be considered harsh by Western standards.

Betty Ford, the former first lady whose triumph over drug and alcohol addiction became a beacon of hope for addicts and the inspiration for her Betty Ford Center, has died, a family friend said Friday.

Scientists in the US have identified the area of the brain which makes heroin addicted rats relapse.

Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study.