The National Institute on Drug Abuse says opioid overdose deaths in 2022 were more than double that of other drugs for that year.

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was ...

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

In a survey that the BPC and the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts conducted in collaboration with Morning Consult in ...

A new vending machine outside of the Flagstaff Medical Center’s emergency department dispenses free opioid overdose-reversal drugs. It’s part of a growing trend nationwide. The machine offers ...

Several New York towns said the state deprived them of their constitutional rights by establishing a settlement fund that ...

Many counties do not have medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) services available through providers and treatment ...

A new study linked weight loss drugs known as semaglutides (Ozempic is one) to a lower risk of opioid overdoses. Doctors tell ...

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

Since Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach declared fentanyl a public health crisis in September 2022, officials approved ...

The federal funds will support substance use prevention and treatment efforts, workforce capacity building and access to ...

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