opioids

Many surgeons write prescriptions for opioid pain medications four times larger than what their patients will actually use after common operations, according to new research. And the size of that ...

First Lady Melania Trump on Nov. 28, called opioids the "worst drug crisis" in United States history. Speaking ...

The mental illness "franchise" has been very good to Pharma. While it could not "grow" the number of ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Oct. 24 signed a bipartisan package of bills on opioid addiction that he called ...

NEW YORK—Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die from opioid overdose, according to a ...

Reports show that both mental illnesses and drug use are on the rise across the United States. Over ...

NEW YORK—At the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 24, President Donald Trump addressed member nations about the worldwide ...

WASHINGTON—Two Texas men pleaded guilty to trafficking more than 10 kilograms (about 22 pounds) of fentanyl through Louisiana, ...

WASHINGTON—Lawmakers are seeking ways to hold China accountable for its role in fueling the opioid crisis. China is ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced a "historic" number of grants for community drug-prevention coalitions, at a White House roundtable ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has barred two Ohio-based doctors from writing prescriptions, saying they “recklessly and unnecessarily distributed painkillers ...

President Donald Trump is urging the Senate to quickly pass a measure that would stop illicit synthetic opioid ...

U.S. health officials said they found a dramatic rise in the number of women who are addicted to ...

WASHINGTON—The illicit opioids being manufactured in China and shipped to the United States are “almost a form of ...

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department, through the Drug Enforcement Administration, plans to reduce 2019 opioid manufacturing quotas for the six ...

WASHINGTON—A new ad campaign that seeks to prevent youth from becoming addicted to opioids was launched June 7. ...

WASHINGTON—Jan Wagner never got to experience the “empty nest” syndrome that so many parents go through as their ...

WASHINGTON—Right now, 8.7 million children in the United States have parents with a substance use disorder. Child welfare ...

DAYTON, Ohio—Billy Brokschmidt can’t remember the number of times he overdosed and stopped breathing, but it was “probably ...

President Donald Trump is calling for high-intensity drug traffickers to face the death penalty in the United States ...

DENVER—One of the most common reasons patients head to an emergency room is pain. In response, doctors may ...

WASHINGTON—The opioid crisis is ravaging the ranks of the tiniest Americans every day. Thousands of babies are born ...

Manufacturer of the powerful opioid painkiller OxyContin, Purdue, has said it will stop promoting opioid drugs to doctors. ...

WASHINGTON—The only thing more devastating than losing a child to an opioid overdose is losing two—on the same ...

Insys Therapeutics Inc's legal woes deepened on Thursday as New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit seeking at ...

DAYTON, Ohio—On any given day, there are about 750,000 people in jails across America. Most of them are ...

WASHINGTON—Taking further steps to slow the rate of deaths from opioids, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is placing ...