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

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

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 ...

In 2017, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic – which then was taking the lives of over 100 people each day – to be the “worst drug crisis in American history”. As he returns to ...

The opioid crisis remains one of the most pressing public health emergencies in the United States. In 2023 alone, more than ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Drug Enforcement Agency has spent countless hours trying to get to the forefront of the opioid epidemic. According to the DEA, fentanyl continues to be the leading ...

Law enforcement in Mohave County is leaving behind Narcan, along with a brochure on how to use it in a community gripped with opioids. Lisa Espinoza was outraged because her son, 31-year-old Larry ...

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Nationwide, the overdose death rate from any opioid decreased from 25 deaths ... which have historically been most hard hit by this epidemic," Cerdá said. "And we should invest resources and ...

War study in Ukraine suggests hydrodissection may reduce pain, opioid use in amputees. A reliable method to treat post-amputation pain remains elusive, but a new Northwestern Medicine study ...