opioids

A divided federal appeals court on Jan. 12 ruled against the opening of what would be the first “supervised injection site” in the United States, saying plans for a site ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the retail giant unlawfully dispensed controlled substances that fueled the opioid ...

We naturally want to feel good. But what happens when our favorite method of stress relief becomes destructive? ...

Commentary Did we learn nothing from the so-called crack-cocaine plague of the '80s and '90s? For those with ...

Just as the country struggles to cope with the opioid epidemic, another epidemic brews beneath—that of methamphetamines. While ...

U.S. Troops cross from Syria to Iraq; Turkey to meet with Russia; Companies reach $260 million deal to ...

Every year, Gallup surveys Americans about their attitudes toward 25 industries. Ranking in the lowest position as the ...

Chronic pain—acute pain that lasts for longer than three months—affects around 1 in 5 people in Europe. The increase in ...

Americans and Canadians are seven times more likely to fill a prescription for opioid pain pills in the ...

The Trump administration announced more funding to combat the opioid crisis; the U.S. is sanctioning a network of ...

Reforming the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs was a key campaign promise of candidate Donald Trump. So how ...

Long-term use of prescription opioids for chronic pain is more common among people who are overweight or obese, ...

Nonmedical opioid users are more likely to start abusing the drug after getting them from friends or family ...

CINCINNATI—Federal authorities said Wednesday, April 18, they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs ...

WASHINGTON—Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) and Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) introduced the Fentanyl Sanctions Act on April 10, a bipartisan ...

BOSTON—The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc. put profits over patient safety by bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive ...

U.S. lawmakers have reacted with skepticism after Beijing announced a set of measures to curb fentanyl production and ...

Deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl skyrocketed more than 1,000% from 2011 to 2016, according to a report ...

U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.) have introduced legislation to tackle the flow of fentanyl ...

The number of Americans who died from alcohol, drugs, and suicide in 2017 reached the highest level recorded—more ...

Commentary See through the smoke screen. In September 2018, Daniel Lopez, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and ...

A Delaware mother is hoping a photo of her deceased son will raise awareness about the opioid epidemic ...

Researchers are reporting a link between doctor-targeted marketing of opioid products and the increase in U.S. deaths from ...

Health officials are looking into a possible link between prescription opioids and a horrific birth defect. When a ...

Chronic pain treatment has become a $635 billion a year "biz" in the US. More is spent per ...

Nearly nine million opioids were shipped to a single pharmacy in the small town of Kermit, West Virginia, ...

When she was in her early 20s, Nicole Veum says, she made a lot of mistakes. “I was ...