Alcohol & Substance Abuse

In small doses, flakka elicits euphoria. But just a little too much sends body temperatures rocketing to 105 degrees, causing a sense of delirium that often leads users to strip down and flee from paranoid hallucinations as their innards, quite literally, melt.

Senate Bill 91 would allow some low-risk nonviolent offenders to avoid jail time.

Dillingham police are investigating three cases of elderly residents being robbed or scammed for drug money, and chief Dan Pasquariello believes more have occurred.

The House and Senate will likely form a conference committee to resolve the differences between the chambers’ different versions of the bill.

Facebook comments predict inevitable death and abuse. But no one knows what’s going to happen.

Unlike most of the roughly 1,400 methadone clinics across the country, the Broadway Center offers not only methadone, but the two other federally approved addiction medications, buprenorphine and naltrexone, and a full complement of mandatory addiction counseling and group classes.