A new experimental painkiller has shown promise in dulling or eliminating pain without the addictive qualities exhibited by ...

Long Island, once at the forefront of the opioid epidemic, has seen its overdose numbers consistently decline in recent years ...

A Kennebunk doctor convicted of illegally prescribing opioids avoided jail time. Here's what the judge had to say.

As overdose deaths continue and treatment gaps remain, the stakes couldn’t be clearer. Lives are on the line. The governor ...

The two efforts were awarded $500,000 research grants each in collaboration with Novant Health, UNC Health and the University ...

A new book shows how Johnson & Johnson has pushed misleading narratives and suppressed inconvenient findings to sell its ...

A new study from Avalere Health shows opioid use disorder (OUD) places tremendous financial and resource burdens on taxpayers and local communities. "The Cost of Addiction: Opioid Use Disorder in the ...

Fentanyl is the deadliest illegal drug in US history by far. It’s often described as the ultimate high, but it’s actually an ...

Nearly a month after the Texas House passed a fentanyl test strip bill, activists stormed Sen. Pete Flores' office to demand Senate action.

At CMS, reports of controlled substance possession reached a 10-year high during the 2022-23 school year, with 717 cases of controlled substance possession across the district of 140,000 students. In ...

New York state had a 32% drop in overdose last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday. Also, the commissioner of the ...