By Artemis Molai Addiction is more likely to develop in certain brains than others. In studies reviewing families and heredity, approximately 50 to 60 percent of opioid use disorder risk is linked to ...

By Sidhanth Srikanta The opioid crisis has expanded beyond the unhoused and working class to increasingly affect teenagers and individuals in smaller suburban or rural towns. Organizations like ...

By Shivani Ramanathan “Snapchat is not harmless messaging anymore, strangers know exactly where teens are, how to contact them, and that is not even what scares me the most,” worried Malini Alagappan.

By Rowena Boulton As the drug market becomes dominated by harmful opioids that heighten the risk of overdose, the emergence of cychlorphine poses a unique threat to those impacted by the opioid crisis ...

By Sara Gholami The Bay Area is known to house some of the most ambitious young minds, from aspiring Silicon Valley tech ...

By Siya Chhibber Film has always been a way to express societal issues, and since the beginning, addiction has often been a big topic; from “The French Connection” (1971) to the popular television ...

The future of the property on San Ramon Valley Boulevard has been determined, and it does not include the masonry store that ...

"Just magical" — those were the words Karla Anderson used to describe her wedding day this week at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.

State Sen. Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) are partnering on two artificial intelligence bills with the goal of creating safety standards and ...

A group advocating for a $30-an-hour minimum wage announced Wednesday that it had collected enough signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot in Alameda County.

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