A new study led by researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute has found that a 2019 Medicare opioid safety ...

For the first time since 2018, the number of drug overdose deaths nationwide has decreased, and Virginia is also seeing the decline.

In a recent study, majority non-White communities had at least 40 percent lower mean adjusted per-capita distribution than majority White communities.

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

Guest essayist Judge Frank Forchione laments that Stark County opioid deaths have "continued to spiral upward." ...

Nearly 22,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized at US borders during the 2024 fiscal year, according to data from the US Customs ...

Congressmen Don Davis (NC-01) and John Rutherford (FL-05) reintroduced bipartisan legislation, the Modern Authentication of ...

The opioid crisis in 2023, amid the Biden administration, cost the U.S. $2.7 trillion, according to a Council of Economic ...

It's the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in over 20 years, designed to eliminate risks of addiction and ...

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.