Members of the Sackler family who own the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma would hand over the company and up to $7 billion in ...

Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and the staggering majority have been ...

Dr. Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, of Maryland, was convicted on nearly two dozen felony counts for selling opioid prescriptions for ...

The FDA approves a new non-opioid pain pill, Journavx, to treat acute pain in adults. It's a first-generation non-addictive ...

Each year, millions of people in America are prescribed a medicine for acute pain.Now, for the first time in over 20 years, ...

Safer-use strategies in primary care patients who use stimulants and/or opioids are deemed acceptable by both patients and ...

Fentanyl and other opioids have fueled the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. In recent years, fatal overdose numbers have become defined by illicit fentanyl, an extremely lethal synthetic opioid ...

What you need to know about opioid overdose reversal drug nalmefene’s risks, effectiveness and clinical concerns ...

The study, which was published in the journal Pharmacological Reports, analyzed the impact of four terpenes that are found in ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has signed an extension of a public health emergency declaration to address the opioid ...