The opioid epidemic has claimed thousands of lives across the nation, and the Reno Orthopedic Center is taking steps to address the crisis with a new program ai ...

Lebanon County is expected to receive $3.6 million from a second wave of opioid settlement funds, which officials will use ...

TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- More emergency room doctors in California are prescribing the anti-addiction medication buprenorphine, contributing to the state’s battle against the U.S.

According to the FCC, the annual opioid overdose death rates are more than six times higher today than they were in 1999.

Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioids epidemic in the United States. Oregon officials declared a 90-day ...

Philadelphia police say progress is happening in the city's Kensington section, but the work is far from done.

The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a total of 257 pounds of opium poppy pods from Madrid at ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...

The opioid settlement, a multibillion-dollar payment from the ... medical providers and communities of people who use drugs ...

The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Standard-Examiner.  The ...

Earlier this month, the Law Court weighed in on a hot-button legal issue—the potential liability of opioid manufacturers for ...