Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

When it comes to disaster preparedness, Santa Cruz County is employing not only a recently established Office of Response, Recovery & Resilience, but also a community nonprofit called CERT that ...

The program offers a free online course that walks you through what opioids are, how to recognize an overdose and how to use ...

Washington — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

These drugs are highly addictive and a major cause of the drug overdose crisis in the U.S., with synthetic opioids like fentanyl contributing to the majority of recent overdose deaths, according ...

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in ...

The chandelier installation represents the decline in daily opioid prescriptions in Utah. It’s been a little over a decade since Terry Olsen’s son died from a heroin overdose, and she’s ...

With drug-overdose deaths in Nebraska more than doubling in a few years, having Narcan and knowing how to use it can be a ...

As Georgia navigates a widespread opioid addiction crisis, researchers in Kennesaw State University’s Wellstar School of Nursing are leveraging a $1.2 million grant to train budding nurses in ...