opioids

WASHINGTON—Continuing his tradition, President Donald Trump has again donated his salary. The approximately $100,000 for his third quarter salary was given to Health and Human Services (HHS) to be put ...

WASHINGTON—The economic cost of the opioid crisis in 2015 was $504 billion, or 2.8 percent of GDP, according ...

Canada offers UN helicopters, planes, trainers; no decision on where The Trudeau government is formally offering helicopters, transport ...

WASHINGTON—A typical scenario looks like this: A 911 call comes in, then emergency services arrive on the scene, ...

WASHINGTON—A veteran takes heroin to make his PTSD flashbacks stop. A 22-year-old with severe bipolar lives too far ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump talked about his older brother’s struggle with alcoholism during a speech on America’s opioid crisis ...

WASHINGTON—A doctor in Western Pennsylvania has been charged with 13 counts of prescribing narcotics—Oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine sulfate, and ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is formally declaring America’s opioid addiction crisis a nationwide public health emergency this afternoon. Senior ...

WASHINGTON—First Lady Melania Trump continued her work to help fight the opioid crisis on Oct. 10 with a ...

DAYTON, Ohio—She was the perfect child, her mother said—straight A's and a 4.2 GPA in school. Then, just ...

DAYTON, Ohio—The sheriff of Montgomery County is fighting an uphill battle. He has been fighting it for four ...

VANCOUVER—Health Canada's proposal to loosen regulations on importing prescription-grade heroin to treat opioid addiction is being hailed as ...

NEW YORK—The Bronx and Staten Island, as unalike as they may be, share at least two unenviable traits: ...

Ohio Parents Brenden Bickerstaff-Clark and Lacy Wood were drug addicts raising their eight-year-old son Cameron Clark together. Bickerstaff-Clark ...

For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—As Ohio's overdose epidemic has climbed toward a record high, an army of lobbyists representing makers of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa.—Pennsylvania's fight against opioid addiction may include a measure that could pave the way to more expensive ...

ALBANY, N.Y.—New York ranked fourth among states whose lawmakers drew the most contributions from the opioid industry but ...

CONCORD, N.H.—Though New Hampshire's Legislature has made tackling the state's opioid abuse crisis a priority, lawmakers also get ...

In March and April, 56 people in the Sacramento area were hospitalized after taking Norco brand hydrocodone pills. ...

A North Carolina couple has been accused of injecting heroin while a baby was still in the vehicle. ...

Fentanyl disguised as prescription pills is a new phenomenon, appearing in the report for the first time. Those ...

Long-acting opioids have a significantly higher risk of death when compared with other medications for moderate-to-severe chronic pain.

Accidental overdoses aren't the only deadly risk from using powerful prescription painkillers—the drugs may also contribute to heart-related ...

We are in the midst of a deadly drug epidemic so severe and widespread that few people in ...

Prince's autopsy has determined that the artist died of an accidental overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The ...

A United States medical examiner has reported that musician Prince died from an overdose of fentanyl, a powerful ...