HealthDay News — Distribution of prescribed opioid analgesics is lower in majority non-White versus majority White communities across all levels of socioeconomic deprivation, according to a study ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has launched online dashboards to track the millions of dollars the state expects to receive from national opioid lawsuit settlements. Under a master settlement ...

Researchers at University of the Pacific in Stockton have developed a long-acting opioid overdose-reversal drug-delivery system that could save lives.

The mother of the toddler told authorities that the child had been holding a spoon she used for fentanyl. She now faces endangerment charges.

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

Top officials at the World Health Organization met with diplomats from its member countries to map out a response to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the U.N. health agency.

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.