They're not slumped over in alleyways with used needles by their sides. Their dignity, at least from outside appearances, remains intact. They haven't lost everything while chasing an insatiable high.

A clinical psychologist termed Tyler Skaggs a "high-functioning" addict in the years prior to his 2019 overdose death, tracing a pattern of use that preceded the Los Angeles Angels pitcher’s fatal ...

When most people picture addiction, they imagine visible collapse. Missed work. Legal trouble. Financial instability. Public unraveling. It is a dramatic image, and for some, it is real. But for ...

LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara man, described by his lawyer “a functioning drug addict,” pleaded guilty Friday to having nearly three-quarters of an ounce of cocaine when police raided his Lockport Road ...