However, the state's public health department warns more money and resources are needed to tackle the ongoing problem of substance use. Massachusetts had more than 700 fewer opioid-related ...

Eight opioid drug manufactures will pay D.C. $1.2 million, as part of a $720 million nationwide settlement claiming the ...

One of the greatest revolutions in the field of pain medication was the isolation of morphine from the opium poppy in the ...

Revive training shows participants how to reverse an opioid overdose with the use of Naloxone (Narcan) and receive a free ...

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said the Sunflower State will be included in a $720 million opioid settlement with drug manufacturers. The attorney general’s office issued a press release on ...

Oregon will receive $10.1 million for drug prevention and treatment services as part of a nationwide settlement with eight ...

Idaho Attorney General Raùl Labrador announced a settlement with companies he says worsened the nation’s opioid crisis.

Kratom, made from the leaves of a tropical tree called Mitragyna speciosa that is native to Southeast Asia, contains two main ...

Opioids accounted for 86 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the state with the highest overdose mortality rate.

Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador announced that the state could receive $2.6 million from a settlement involving eight opioid drug makers. This sum is part of a ...

Sanjay Mehta faces four years and a $750,000 fine for prescribing opioids to two customers who died of overdoses ...

Prescription opioid abuse and its downstream effects have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. On May 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved a step closer to providing help to ...