The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal ...

The Trump Administration’s abrupt cancellation of National Institutes of Health meetings and grant reviews has sparked ...

While overdose death rates in the U.S. for white people have fallen dramatically, the rates for Black people lag behind.

When we first encountered Daniel, we didn’t have a medical van. Back then we drove our own vehicles around town, searching ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family that controls the major prescription opioids manufacturer have agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement with West Virginia and 13 other states due to fueling the ...

Baltimore should use the money it won from opioid-related lawsuits to fund affordable and workforce housing projects downtown ...

Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug ...

The Addiction Abatement Funds Working Group held its first meeting Jan. 2 to begin reviewing and recommending proposals to spend the $620,000 the town will receive from the national opioid settlement ...

Passing the Alternatives to PAIN Act would be an excellent way for Trump to uphold his promise to “Make America Healthy Again ...

The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and antianxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to Rutgers Health ...

Since the opioid epidemic was declared an emergency in 2017, it has claimed more than 450,000 lives, but local drug and alcohol specialists are working to fight the crisis daily. The ...