More New Yorkers received scripts for buprenorphine, a med used to treat opioid addiction, amid fight against record-high ...

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, citing the fentanyl crisis as a significant issue exacerbating ...

A University of the Pacific team has developed a single-dose injection to counter the effects of fentanyl and other opioid ...

A Quebec coroner says the death of Montreal teen Mathis Boivin should be “sounding the alarm” on preventing opioid use among ...

Public health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found ...

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually ...

PRISON chiefs are preparing to deal with up to 41 opioid overdoses every day as they battle a tidal wave of hard drugs.

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

The primary danger of using opioids is an overdose, caused by compounds that interact with ... involved in 81,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Heroin is an illegal form of opioid. Stimulants increase ...