A decision about how to spend settlement funds in Carter County, Kentucky, which was hit hard by the opioid epidemic, offers ...

Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new federal data published Thursday.

Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios The rate of people dying due to drug overdoses continues to increase in Oregon, even as most other states see signs of progress. Why it matters: Overdose deaths seem to be ...

In a phenomenon known as the “iron law of prohibition,” stricter drug law enforcement led drug-trafficking organizations to ...

Unknown to them, the drug had been fortified with a nitazene compound called isotonitazene, a highly potent new synthetic opioid. Two of the men, Peter Haslam and Adrian Davies, overdosed and went ...

The B.C. government has overhauled the prescription opioid program to require witnessed dosing. Conservatives say the safe ...

Use it or lose it. That's the message from one state lawmaker to cities and towns across the state over their sitting on more ...

With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...

A memorial to the hundreds of local lives lost to opioid overdoses, the cemetery will be relocated to Carleton Park, a strip ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat ...