Just over 100 days in office: That's approximately 9,100 people who have died from drug overdoses, especially opioid pain pills, heroin...

America today feels to me a bit like Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy as those catastrophic storms approached. President Donald Trump, his...

In a recent article, I made the case against "Trumpcare" for our general health care system. As a psychiatrist, I now focus on the impact...

We don't know yet what Trump and his team will specifically introduce to replace the Affordable Care Act (or if they'll replace it at...

On Nov. 17, Dr. Vivek Murthy, a vice admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and U.S. surgeon general, issued a...

I will miss President Barack Obama. Not only has he brought intelligence and integrity to the White House, but he has done a lot to...

On May 4, 2015, Gloucester, Massachusetts Police Chief Leonard Campanello wrote on the department's Facebook page that, in the wake of...

Henry, a 43-year-old educated and now unemployed white man in the Midwest, was taking a potentially lethal overdose of narcotic pills...

In the wake of Prince's death, opioids are once again in the headlines. While precise details remain private, The New York Times reported...

In the first Season of HBO's "The Wire," the fictitious but alarmingly real Baltimore deputy police commissioner remarks, "Buy-bust ......

In recent weeks, a spate of media attention has once again alerted Americans to our epidemic of narcotic drug abuse – and its destructive...

Where will you be when the next mass killing occurs? Where will your children, spouse, brother, sister, parents, niece or nephew, dear...