A national crisis has emerged as the number of overdose deaths from both legal and illegal drugs has skyrocketed. Now New York is taking action to stem the crisis.

Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed bipartisan legislation to reduce preventable overdose fatalities, making New York the most...

There's a change occurring in American politics: Candidates are being more open about past drug use -- and not just marijuana. More politicians are coming clean about their past experimentation with other illegal drugs, including cocaine.

Four of the six candidates for New York attorney general confessed to past drug...

A string of high profile celebrity deaths -- including Heath Ledger and Corey Haim -- have focused attention on accidental drug overdose as a national issue, but New Yorkers need little reminder of the crisis. Accidental overdose deaths in communities from Buffalo to Long Island have spurred discussions about how...

Driving along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), you'll see advertisements for just about everything, including alcohol, strip clubs and casinos. But there's one ad you won't see: a rejected billboard highlighting Mayor Bloomberg's marijuana arrests policies in New York City.

Most New Yorkers don't know that last year, the...

New York City remains the marijuana arrest capital of the world, according to an upcoming report by Queens College Professor Harry Levine. In 1993, there were only 900 arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana, while 40,000 people were arrested in 2008--mostly young Black and Latino men. Dr. Levine...