Opioid Addiction

Some "safer supply" program participants in London are using the drugs as "currency" to trade with criminals to obtain more dangerous drugs such as fentanyl, the Ontario city's police chief ...

The AvertD test uses a cheek swab to identify markers of potential opioid addiction.

As overdose deaths spiral, experts say failures of medication like methadone underscore need for better interventions.

Alberta is pushing for legislation changes that would allow it to expand and adjust class-action lawsuits against opioid ...

Commentary PENN HILLS, Pa.—When the Penn Hills police and paramedics arrived at the modest suburban Pittsburgh home in ...

Commentary While we will finally be looking at the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror in 2023, we ...

Strung out on drugs half her life, Brandi Edwards, 29, said the longest she held a job before ...

Oklahoma has reached a $250 million settlement with AmerisourceBergen Corp, Cardinal Health Inc., and McKesson Corp to resolve ...

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) is encouraging Australia's healthcare professionals to reconsider ...

James Pierre, a 52-year-old doctor from Houston, Texas, was convicted on March 25 for illegally prescribing over one ...

The judge overseeing Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy on Wednesday approved a $6 billion opioid settlement funded by its Sackler ...

The U.S. health regulator on Wednesday warned patients and prescribers about the risk of potential dental problems arising ...

New York City opened two supervised injection sites in Manhattan on Tuesday to provide illicit drug users and ...

Washington state's attorney general on Monday argued in court that three large drug distributors' excessive shipments of pain ...

MINNEAPOLIS—Overseeing sober living homes for newly recovering drug addicts is difficult in the best of times. But the ...

Commentary WEST VIRGINIA—Craig Hettlinger explains that he started drinking when he was about 16 years old. He escalated ...

The CCP virus pandemic has worsened another existing epidemic—the opioid crisis—as the virus has worsened feelings of anxiety, ...

Teddy Lanier is a retired Green Beret who struggled with opioid addiction for 17 years. Now, he's sharing ...

DAYTON, Ohio—Montgomery County, in southwest Ohio, was ground zero in the United States’ opioid crisis that reached a ...

The United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. Some are calling it a public health ...

Reforming the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs was a key campaign promise of candidate Donald Trump. So how ...

As opioid addiction and deadly overdoses escalated into an epidemic across the United States, thousands of surgeons continued ...

No family is immune to the opiate epidemic---not even a tightly-knit one from a close community rooted in ...

In a nearly unanimous vote, the Senate approved a bill to address the epidemic of opioid addiction that's ...

Two decades ago, Purdue Pharma produced thousands of brochures and videos that urged patients with chronic pain to ...