President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the ...

The FDA has approved Journavx, a pain medication, offering a safer alternative to opioids. Learn about its benefits and side ...

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid about 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine. Opioids accounted for about 82,000 U.S. deaths in 2022, ten times the number in ...

A homeless ex-con found dead in the bin area of a Havering petrol station was the latest victim of a novel synthetic opioid linked to a rising number of east London deaths, a court has heard.

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 ...

Opioid misuse causes thousands of deaths each year. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2022, 73,838 people died from synthetic opioid overdoses (other than methadone), and 5,871 ...

While prescription opioids and heroin were once the main drivers of this epidemic, synthetic opioids like fentanyl have now become the leading cause of overdose deaths. Fentanyl is a powerful ...

TORONTO — A synthetic dye newly banned from the U.S. food supply will remain available in Canada, where the federal regulator has deemed it is not a health risk to the general population.

Pez candy, which contains red dye no. 3, is on display at a store in Lafayette, Calif., March 24, 2023. Health Canada says a synthetic dye newly banned from the U.S. food supply does not pose a health ...

Latest figures show since June 2023, there have been at least 400 drug-related deaths across the UK linked to nitazenes, a type of synthetic opioid, and this figure is expected to increase in the ...

Since June 2023, at least 400 deaths have been linked to new synthetic opioid drugs that were either not previously linked to severe public health concerns or had been created with compositions ...