Fred Meyer has distributed 713 locking bags since joining the initiative in May, according to the state Health Care Authority ...

Subsys is an ultrapowerful form of fentanyl, ... From 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people in the United States died from overdoses related to prescription opioids, ...

Opioid data pried loose ... shows that from 2006 to 2012 America was saturated with an astonishing 76 billion prescription opioid pills ... distributing and dispensing generic forms of ...

The study found that patients who needed emergency care for an overdose of prescription opioids were most likely to be from the South (40%); to be between the ages of 18 and 54 (66%); and to live ...

If not, ask your doctor why he or she is writing an opioid prescription. These are powerful drugs that should be used only for certain cases of severe, short-term pain. Try nondrug methods first.

The nonmedical use of prescription opioids is a major public health issue in the United States, both because of the overall high prevalence and because of marked increases in associated morbidity ...

Sue Kruczek, of Guilford, Connecticut, has worked to pass opioid legislation since her 20-year-old son Nick died in 2013 of a heroin overdose following an addiction to prescription drugs.

Long-term prescription opioid use, defined as 90 days or more, increased from 1.8 percent in 1999-2000 to 5.4 percent in 2013-2014. "What's especially concerning is the jump in long-term prescription ...

Heroin is another form of opioid that is not in the form of prescription medication, Barton notes. The researchers found clear differences in characteristics of opioid users versus non-users ...