CLEVELAND, Ohio — Last spring, jail officials found an unresponsive inmate face-down in a cell near a toilet. Correctional ...

Tennessee’s overdose surveillance system is not designed to detect newly engineered synthetic opioids quickly. The emergence ...

Local drug task force responds to new synthetic opioids found in Kentucky.

A powerful synthetic drug that has already caused overdose deaths in eastern Tennessee has now been detected in central ...

The Kentucky Department of Homeland Security recently issued a warning that a new synthetic opioid named cychlorphine has ...

A large review of opioid pain relievers prescribed for acute pain has found these medicines provide only small, short-term ...

Infants exposed to opioids and psychotropic drugs during pregnancy have a 30% to 60% higher risk of experiencing neonatal withdrawal, a study has found. That risk doubles when multiple psychotropic ...

Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few ...

A new opioid-free pain medication was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday, marking a non-addictive alternative for patients. Journavx (suzetrigine), made by Vertex, is ...

The Trump administration is framing the killing of cartel leader “El Mencho” as a major victory in the war on drugs. Decades of drug enforcement tells another story. Within hours of El Mencho’s death, ...

At least eight states now require insurers to cover alternatives without higher co-pays or extra hurdles.<br/> ...