Mecklenburg County invests $10.9 million from the National Opioid Settlement into local intervention and recovery efforts.

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family have recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that OxyContin propelled a widespread opioid addiction ...

Louisville will spend $2.9 million in one-time opioid settlement funding on expanding addiction prevention programming in schools and other services. Louisville Metro Council approved Thursday the ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – The office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has announced his office has obtained a settlement with Mayo Clinic over charity care and debt-collection practices.

he solemn issue of opioid and drug addiction afflicting Halifax County was the topic of a presentation from Engaging Halifax County at the town of Halifax’s meeting on Tuesday night. The ...

Madi lost her dad to an overdose when she was 11 years old. Now 14, she finds solace at Camp Mariposa, where she can be a kid again and connect with others who know her pain. A 4-year-old boy died ...

The College of Health and Human Services Interprofessional Education Committee in partnership with Addiction Studies at WMU will host Kendall Conway from the Kalamazoo County Health and Community ...

On April 21, Prince — one of the world’s most iconic singers — died. The cause of his death remains shrouded, but according to law enforcement officers, Prince had prescription opioid medication at ...

In response to the opioid epidemic, Massachusetts joined numerous states in filing lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies. On July 21, 2021, the Commonwealth received its ...

The United States has been battling an opioid crisis for decades, marked by three distinct waves of rising overdose deaths. The first wave began in the 1990s with the widespread overprescription ...