As a former public health official, clinician and researcher, I've been engaged in efforts to control the opioid addiction epidemic for the past 15 years. The data show that the situation is dire ...

How the opioid epidemic became America’s worst drug crisis ever, in 15 maps and charts. Making sense of the “big, beautiful bill” The bill will have major consequences for Americans.

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An exclusive Washington Post analysis of county-level data shows the predominant cause of opioid overdose deaths shifted between pills, heroin and fentanyl as the epidemic got worse.

The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history. Death rates now rival those of AIDS during the 1990s, and with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing ...

The epidemic has a profound impact on families and communities — parents with opioid use disorder have to navigate treatment and sometimes battle for custody of their kids; the state has to ...

The opioid epidemic is ravaging large parts of the American population. But some races are being hit harder than others. Dr. Andrew Kolodny, a drug abuse expert, explains why that might be the case.

Amid an opioid epidemic often seen as rural and white, black Americans in cities like Chicago have been struggling and dying for decades. Joseph P. Williams Jan. 28, 2019.

As the opioid epidemic rages across the country, data tracking its evolution often lags far behind. A few months ago, I set out to compile data on opioid prescribing, overdoses and deaths, as well ...

This page was updated Sept. 12, 2023, to add data for 2015 through 2019 that was released as part of a court case. For the first time, Americans can see the rise — and fall — of legal opioids ...

Who is to blame for the nation's deadly opioid epidemic? That's the question at the heart of MDL 2804, largest civil action in U.S. history.