Proposed cuts to Medicaid could undo advances in treatment for opioid use disorders, risking more overdoses, deaths and ...

If we want to turn these short-term gains into sustainable change, we must fully unleash the potential of methadone-assisted ...

Philly’s opioid addiction crisis is constantly evolving. Local health care workers and researchers explain some of the latest ...

Fentanyl is responsible for some 88% of all overdose deaths in Baltimore. Every Baltimore fentanyl overdose is not just an ...

In response to the crisis, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in 2017. But despite federal and state interventions ...

Analysts say the opioid epidemic started with the overprescription of legal pain medications in the 1990s, but it has intensified in recent years due to influxes of cheap heroin, fentanyl ...

Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioids epidemic in the United States. Oregon officials declared a 90-day ...

We were finally getting something right in addressing the opioid epidemic, which accounted for most of the decrease and has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. That progress has been hard ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in 2017. “Opioid-related deaths peaked in mid-2023 at 85,387 deaths in the twelve-month ...