Opioid overdose deaths have now slowed to the lowest levels nationwide since 2020, according to new estimates from the ...

Experts are unsure as to what is causing the decline, which saw deaths decrease by some 14% between June 2023 and 2024.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has called for immediate global action to address the escalating ...

The Arizona Department of Education is distributing opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan to schools across the state to ...

San Francisco's health department, at times criticized for not doing enough to encourage people to go into drug treatment ...

The city of Baltimore won $266 million in its lawsuit accusing top drug distributors McKesson and Cencora of fueling an ...

The No Pain Act will mandate Medicare insurance coverage for non-opioid pain management, including evidence-based treatments, ...

With the increased legalization of recreational cannabis, as many as 1 in 5 pregnant women in the U.S. are now using the drug ...

This was accompanied by heightened neuronal responsiveness to cues associated with rewards like a light turning on to ...

There is a tendency to overlook the multiple factors and stakeholders that contributed to the Rx opioid crisis. This includes ...

Sammy Becdach is accused of writing prescriptions for opioids and benzodiazepines for people who were not his patients.

Opioid overdose deaths have decreased for 12 months, with 70,655 predicted deaths through June 2024, down from 86,401 in June ...