The Louisville Metro Council has decided how to spend another round of opioid settlement money. Councilmembers voted 20-4 ...

The United States has been battling an opioid crisis for decades, marked by three distinct waves of rising overdose deaths.

Most people understand that our country is facing a crisis of opioid addiction and deaths. To combat this, you need proven solutions and resources. Yet, a lot of the money that is supposed to be ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed Thursday to increase their financial contribution to $7.4 billion to resolve mass opioid litigation. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed ...

At issue: whether opioid settlement money — paid by health care companies that were sued for fueling the opioid crisis and meant to help states abate addiction — should be funneled to two ...

Palm Beach County has seen a 46% decrease in opioid overdose deaths from 2023 to 2024. Officials attribute the decline to increased availability of naloxone and efforts to combat unscrupulous ...

Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Board members are warning that the Hochul administration’s resistance to some of their ...

And, unfortunately, Georgia has not been spared. From 2010 to 2022, opioid-related deaths in our state skyrocketed by 302%. We like to think of addiction as something that happens somewhere else ...

Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to blunt cravings for other drugs like fentanyl and reduce the risk of overdose.Credit ...