After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...

After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something ...

LICADD has been addressing substance use for nearly 70 years, but that fight is not stopping, nor is it's intensity lessening ...

Ed Mahon reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2024 Data Fellowship and received engagement mentoring and funding. Spotlight PA is ...

Opioid abuse and rural homelessness create a spiral for some rural residents, a new study has found. For the study, ...

A good night’s sleep often sets the stage for a positive day. But for the nearly quarter of American adults struggling with ...

Hearst Television's National Investigative Unit is learning more about a substance, not considered an opioid, being mixed ...

A Birmingham man pleaded guilty in a case of missing opioid tablets.The Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Dozier Blanks, 39, pleaded guilty to theft of property and received a 15-month ...

The replacement of safe consumption sites with Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hubs is dangerous and lacks a ...

The New York Times also alleged in a Dec. 7 investigation that Acadia, which operates 165 comprehensive treatment centers that provide methadone and other opioid use disorder treatments, fraudulently ...

It will take several years for the full health impact of the UK’s first safer drugs consumption room in Glasgow to be ...

The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay launched a free week-long program that medically assists overdose patients while they detox ...