Many communities far from treatment centers and large health systems are expanding access to local sober-living homes.

The widespread availability of the overdose reversal drug naloxone has radically changed the culture of opioid use on the streets of San Francisco.

Having fled quickly, often without medications, wheelchairs or pets to comfort them, refugees from the Campfire manage as best they can in makeshift shelters miles from home.

The tragedy illustrates how the limited number of clinics available to prescribe buprenorphine, a drug that all but erases opioid withdrawal, can become crowded, chaotic and dangerous.

Under California’s Whole Person Care program, Sacramento is using Medicaid funds to help its homeless population find housing.

For me, detoxing was nightmarish. But it was my only way out.

In California, a commitment to evidence-based care may be delaying treatment for criminal offenders.

Heather Menzel thought returning to her rural California hometown was the answer to her addiction problems. Then she discovered the town had no medical treatment options for her but plenty of heroin.

Pressure is growing on employers to better address the mental health needs of workers.

At a San Francisco primary care clinic, trauma is recognized as a root cause of many health challenges.

Customized iPhones are helping scientists in California and Cameroon attack the parasite that causes river blindness, an African scourge.

An ailing man's decision created ripple effects for a group of anarchists, their cause and the neighborhood around them.