More emergency room doctors in California are prescribing the anti-addiction medication buprenorphine, contributing t ...

West Virginia has the highest opioid overdose mortality rate in the country, and leaders are bringing new legislation into ...

New testing of a cheap and deadly drug that has triggered a national emergency in Sierra Leone reveals it is composed of synthetic opioids and cannabinoids imported from abroad, according to a report ...

In 2024 alone, fentanyl claimed 49 lives in Sonoma County, Santa Rosa police Sgt. Kevin Naugle said. Of those, 41 deaths ...

Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastav emphasizes the importance of selling medicines only through prescriptions to prevent narcotic drugs from being diverted for illicit use. State regulatory ...

This house at 422 W. Votaw St., Portland, is slated for conversion into a recovery home. Jay County Commissioners approved ...

FDA officials have identified nine more companies allowed to manufacture and export a banned, lethal drug combination linked ...

Data shows that more than 26.6 million prescription pain pills were supplied to Aroostook County residents between 2006 and ...

Fentanyl has proliferated so quickly because it’s cheaper to make than other drugs and can be mass-produced in a few hours.

With the rise of obesity drugs a pair of Penn State researchers set out to answer a question: could drugs aimed at weight ...

The FDA has approved label changes for once-monthly Sublocade, helping to reduce possible barriers to treatment initiation ...

Earlier this month, the Law Court weighed in on a hot-button legal issue—the potential liability of opioid manufacturers for ...