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

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 ...

Fewer Americans are drug addicts, yet more people are dying from drug use. Law enforcement’s crackdown on opioids just caused ...

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 ...

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

After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.

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

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

Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...

When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...

Santa Rosa County will spend opioid settlement dollars to help people jailed for drug crimes continue treatment and recovery ...