Police say their hands are tied when it comes to helping homeless former child star Tylor Chase. The ex-Nickelodeon actor is back sleeping on the streets of Riverside, California, after being placed ...

The toxic empathy of Democratic policies on homelessness and drug use allows homeless drug addicts to slowly kill themselves in the streets and even prevents them from getting the treatment they need ...

The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug ...

My life changed 20 years ago, when my friend and I were floating down the Rogue River in Oregon. Suddenly the motor fell off the boat, which tipped over. I slipped into the icy water. Some young ...

The debate over how to deal with homelessness, drug addiction and mental health issues has intensified in recent months — with a renewed focus on a controversial strategy of forcing people into ...

One such evening about four years ago, Charmyra Harrell arrived there limping, her right leg swollen and covered in sores.

This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 California Health Equity Fellowship. A tough-on-crime measure California voters overwhelmingly approved ...

A Trump administration decision to terminate hundreds of health services grants sent several Massachusetts mental health and ...

More than 4,500 of the homeless individuals identified in the 2024 Point-In-Time count experienced mental illness, officials ...

The McShin Foundation, a Richmond-based addiction recovery organization, is concerned about losing crucial city funding as ...

While the state has helped thousands of people out of homelessness, recent counts show the problem increasing in much of the ...