opioid crisis

Drew Pinsky, popularly known as Dr. Drew, is an addiction medicine specialist and host of the TV series "Ask Dr. Drew."

A week before the first debate, polls show President Joe Biden flipping the script among independent voters. What ...

More babies were born with neonatal abstinence syndrome before the height of opioid overdoses that came later, in ...

Dr. Carrie Mendoza is an emergency medicine physician and an advocate for the depoliticization of health care and ...

A ‘significant increase’ in overall mortality rates was seen in three American states—Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

State looks to refine its health care amid a national trend to improve quality of life after the ...

Lisa Almond wants to help bring awareness to the disease of addiction and its life-shattering and deadly consequences.

'Taken together, these data suggest that while drug use is not becoming more common among young people, it ...

Congressional bid is a political comeback for former mayor after scandal, personal tragedy.

Victims have clashed over the deal, with some arguing that it is a necessary means of providing relief ...

The British Columbia government goes up against dozens of health care and pharmaceutical companies in court on Nov. ...

A recent survey shows that more Americans believe we are losing the fight against the illegal drug problem ...

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

Security analysts and health care professionals express concerns while enough illegal fentanyl crosses the border every month to ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Oct. 10 said Beijing agreed to "look into" his request to ...

Kroger agrees to pay over a billion to settle the majority of claims in a multi-party lawsuit.

Body camera footage shows the moments after Milwaukee County deputy Adriean Williams came in contact with Fentanyl. The ...

Amid the dramatic rise in overdose deaths caused by “tranq dope,” or fentanyl laced with animal tranquilizer xylazine, ...

The federal Conservatives are questioning the Liberal government about its ties with the global consulting firm McKinsey & ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health meets on "Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Examining the SUPPORT ...

The Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Québécois joined forces Monday in voting down a Conservative motion calling on the government ...

The founder of Oath Keepers gets 18 years in prison—the longest sentence handed down so far in connection ...

Canadians up to age 44 saw 27 percent more deaths than expected in the last five months of ...

The Conservatives have introduced a non-binding motion in the House of Commons calling on the Liberal government to ...

It's telling that rather than banning this pill, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opts for a ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced $205.7 million would be allocated to fight fentanyl addiction in the state by ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will give priority status to an over-the-counter opium overdose antidote nasal ...