Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- People of color now have less access to prescription opioid painkillers than ...

"The Sackler family relentlessly pursued profit at the expense of vulnerable patients and played a critical role in starting and fueling the opioid epidemic ... in the United States again ...

LOUIS — For the first time since 2019, opioid overdose deaths are down across the state of Missouri. To fight the opioid epidemic ... put that responsibility on us and our staff to plant ...

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 ...

The study tested different methods of training healthcare providers so they could help their patients better manage chronic ...

ATLANTA — Georgia State University researchers are looking at factors that cause people to remain unhoused, especially in more rural parts of the United States. Rather than looking solely at ...

Prescriptions have fallen sharply in the last decade and the current wave of the opioid epidemic is mainly due ... and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance ...

The opioid crisis, which has caused more than 500,000 deaths over 20 years in the United States, has triggered ... in starting and fueling the opioid epidemic," James said in a statement.

The latest settlement is meant to address a drug addiction crisis that has led to over 700,000 opioid overdose deaths in the United States over ... opioid addiction epidemic in the U.S. Purdue ...