The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

The U.S. Department of Justice this week filed a lawsuit against Walgreens, alleging the company knowingly filled illegal prescriptions with no medical purpose, including opioids. Walgreens is ...

The Biden administration Wednesday finalized a long-awaited rule laying out how some health care providers can prescribe gold-standard opioid use disorder treatments through telehealth.

Participants were categorized as successful or unsuccessful based on a definition requiring complete abstinence from illicit opioids in the last week of treatment and at least two of the previous ...

Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family owners are offering to increase their financial contribution to a bankruptcy settlement of opioid lawsuits while accepting some exposure to future litigation ...

The long quest for powerful non-opioid drugs that treat pain without risk of addiction is nearing a milestone, in the form of a pill that could soon win approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

Jan 13 (Reuters) - The Sackler family owners of Purdue Pharma are offering to increase their financial contribution to a bankruptcy settlement of opioid lawsuits, while agreeing to some exposure ...

Easley, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest grocery chains of ...

Those given the off-the-shelf meds had less pain, better sleep and higher satisfaction than those prescribed the opioid, results show. “We think this is a landmark study,” lead researcher Dr. Cecile ...

COVINGTON, Ky. — Kroger will pay Kentucky $110 million in settlement funds that will ultimately go to combat the opioid crisis Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says the business helped ...