D spent a decade recovering from an addiction that started when he fell off a ladder, got injured and was prescribed opioid pain pills.

The county's Medical Examiner is calling to pivot addiction prevention and treatment efforts to address rising cocaine ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...

Tennessee is finally beginning to turn a corner in the opioid crisis. Overdose deaths fell by 32% last year according to preliminary numbers, yet the state remains among the hardest hit in the nation.

Over the past six years, overdose deaths among Black and Hispanic residents have risen sharply. So has the number of trips to the emergency department because of overdoses. To tackle the crisis, the ...

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer charged Lawrence Arata with human trafficking, patronizing prostitutes, obstruction of justice and witness intimidation. The Opioid Crisis Action ...

A federal bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday formally approved OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harms of opioids. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane gave ...

While the dangers of fentanyl have been dominating headlines for years, the death toll from another class of extremely potent synthetic opioids called “nitazenes” has been climbing steadily. For ...

Under the plan, the company will dissolve and its owners, members of the Sackler family, will pay as much as $7 billion of their personal fortune to states, localities, tribes and others harmed in the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Pima County Board Chair Rex Scott have made a statement about the ongoing efforts to address homelessness and the fentanyl/opioid crisis in Tucson ...

Over the last two decades, the drug overdose crisis — driven by opioids — has taken an unimaginable toll on American families and communities. Yet the data suggest progress is being made in combating ...

Philadelphia doctors have been on the front lines of the latest ugly chapter of the opioid epidemic – managing xylazine wounds in people who inject drugs. Increasingly across Philadelphia, illicit ...