West Virginia's new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state's opioid crisis: He was once addicted ...

Most of the cases investigated involved fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid now dominant in Philadelphia’s illicit drug ...

Lisa Marie Presley says in her posthumous memoir, 'From Here to the Great Unknown,' out Oct. 8, that she suffered "withdrawal ...

Last year over 70,000 Americans died from taking drug mixtures that contained fentanyl or other synthetic opioids. The good ...

Reed is a senior member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services and helped ensure that $1.575 ...

The city has argued that evidence shows its initiatives in Kensington would help combat a cycle of addiction and overdose ...

Tactics used to persuade U.S. doctors that potent painkillers could be safely prescribed have been used abroad, an ...

Paediatricians must prescribe opioids for pain to children when necessary, with recommended precautions to increase safety, ...

Kentucky’s attorney general is suing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts over its role in “worsening” the ...

Non-opioid alternatives provide satisfactory pain relief, yet too many patients are prescribed opioids after dental ...

A first-of-its-kind analysis conducted as part of an investigation by journalists in eight countries found that some of the ...

It was an absolute matter of addiction, withdrawal in the big leagues," Presley shared in From Here to the Great Unknown, the ...