A surge of suspected overdose deaths this month in Cininnati has health officials questioning whether deadly carfentanil might be back on the streets.

Sonoma County commits settlement funds from opioid manufacturers to address its drug crisis, with a focus on treatment and ...

The spending plan outlines: $11.6 million for community proposals supporting treatment; $3.8 million to put toward the county ...

Canada on Tuesday named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country’s fentanyl czar, ...

When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...

After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...

Santa Rosa County will spend opioid settlement dollars to help people jailed for drug crimes continue treatment and recovery ...

New research links emergency department opioid prescriptions to small increases in future opioid use and hospitalisations ...

LICADD has been addressing substance use for nearly 70 years, but that fight is not stopping, nor is it's intensity lessening ...

A Birmingham nurse has been convicted after stealing opioid tablets from the nursing home where he was working ...

Opioid prescriptions in the emergency department (ED) were associated with small increases in later opioid prescriptions and ...

For Vertex these days, it’s all about the launches of three new products—sickle cell disease gene therapy Casgevy, the ...