Proposed cuts to Medicaid could undo advances in treatment for opioid use disorders, risking more overdoses, deaths and stress on the U.S. health system ...

Purdue’s new plan filed nine months after the original, which would have granted the Sacklers immunity from opioid-related ...

What started as a medical solution for pain management spiraled into a nationwide addiction crisis. Drugs like OxyContin, ...

Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and according to the National Institutes of Health, three quarters of those casualties were men. A new study ...

Philadelphia’s 7% drop in fatal overdoses in 2023 is notable. Still, opioid use disorder claimed the lives of over 1,100 residents that year – more than three times as many lives as 10 years earlier.

The ABC7 I-Team spoke exclusively with the former commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, Dr. Allison Arwady, who is now with the CDC and touting the substantial strides made over the ...

We increasingly hear pleas from those who are suffering agonizing pain not only about pain management but also about ways to end their lives.

Law enforcement in Mohave County is leaving behind Narcan, along with a brochure on how to use it in a community gripped with opioids. Lisa Espinoza was outraged because her son, 31-year-old Larry ...

According to the latest figures, deaths involving synthetic opioids, like fentanyl analogs, also decreased by 9.5% in 2023, ...