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

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 ...

As opioid settlement money continues to flow into Kentucky, counties are having to make major decisions on how to spend it. Half of it goes to the state's Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, which ...

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 ...

Rep. Nina Milliken, D-Blue Hill, has been accepted to the Opioid Policy Fellows program established by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The program provides an opportunity ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...