Most people understand that our country is facing a crisis of opioid addiction and deaths. To combat this, you need proven solutions and resources. Yet, a lot of the money that is supposed to be spent ...

Kratom and 7-OH may be marketed as herbal supplements, but they function like opioids — shaping how clinicians treat ...

National Opioid Awareness Day is a time for remembrance, prevention and action. In 2024, more than 80,000 people in the United States lost their lives to drug overdoses, including an estimated 4,567 ...

Snohomish County Human Services Opioid Outreach Specialist Amy Wheat talks about Narcan at the Everett Public Library Evergreen Branch in Everett, Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. (Annie Barker / ...

Photos of people lost to drug addiction at an overdose-awareness vigil in front of New Hampshire's Statehouse in 2022. New Hampshire lawmakers have proposed diverting millions of dollars meant to ...

Gulfport receives more opioid settlement money than any local government in. On Tuesday, its city council voted to spend $250 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over ...

Where does all that drug-settlement money go? In Massachusetts’ case, it advances efforts that someday hopefully will preclude the need for such a resource. But that’s not currently the situation on ...

Amanda Eleazar, of Iowa City, was just 25 years old when she started using opioids. It was 2014, and she was a mother of four living in Tennessee. Her husband received a prescription from a local pain ...

The U.S. opioid crisis has varied in severity across the country, leading to extended debate about how and why it has spread. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Now, a ...

New polling suggests New Yorkers are increasingly affected by opioid abuse and more skeptical of officials' attempts to combat it. Assemblyman John T. McDonald III speaks to Prescription for Progress ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New York opioid cap law reduced opioid quantities filled after total joint replacement. Results of this study ...