For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug ...

In the face of an opioid overdose crisis, President Biden oversaw a historic shift toward harm reduction for addiction.

We’re headed into the Somerset County Jail. Madison, Maine. So this is the entrance. This is for weapons clearing only. In ...

The program's expansion is being funded by money Orange County received through national legal settlements with opioid ...

A new study published in Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared ...

North Carolina will get a cut of a nationwide opioid settlement. Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners agreed to more than $7 billion. It is tied to claims that OxyContin caused a widespread ...

As opioid pain medications continue being prescribed for chronic and severe pain, understanding their risks becomes ...

The $58.6 million initiative will support people with opioid use disorder who are unhoused. It's OSAC's largest investment so ...

More than 5 million Americans struggle with opioid use disorder, a physical addiction entwined with America’s health, ...

The latest settlement is meant to address a drug addiction crisis that has led to over 700,000 opioid overdose deaths in the United States over the past two decades. In addition to the payments ...

Clinicians and policymakers need a more accurate estimate of the prevalence of problematic opioid use, authors say.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium launched an evidence-based opioid treatment program at the Recovery In ...