After more than a decade of rising mortality, the USA is experiencing an unexpected and encouraging decline in drug overdose deaths. According to provisional estimates from the US Centers for Disease ...

The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), which puts certain ...

In America, we usually talk about opioids in the context of addiction, overdose, and the criminal consequences of illicit use. And for good reason: from 1999 to 2018, more Americans died from opioid ...

Boxes of Narcan sit on the top of a refrigerator in case of an overdose in Lexington, Kentucky, on May 23. (Michael Swensen for The Washington Post) Drug overdose deaths from synthetic opioids — ...

Officials said that the U.S. Navy service members continued to deal to other crew, even after one person on the carrier ingested a fentanyl-laced pill and died in 2023. By Adeel Hassan City officials ...

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a serious and complex condition affecting millions of people across the country and contributing to a national public health emergency. Yet stigma and misinformation about ...

New York-based Fair Health recently conducted a study on national opioid practices. The nonprofit data bank analyzed anonymous claims data — provided by insurers — that contained information for 150 ...

What started as a medical solution for pain management spiraled into a nationwide addiction crisis. Drugs like OxyContin, fentanyl and hydrocodone—once praised as breakthroughs—became some of the ...

The opioid epidemic that started in the late 1990s has taken a staggering toll. We have lost more people to drug overdoses than in all the wars since the beginning of the past century. Sadly, although ...

The next fentanyl may not come from drug cartels and basement labs — but your local truck stop. Pharmacist TikToker Grant Harting recently bought a gas station pill with ‘super concentrated’ amounts ...