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

The opioid epidemic costs the U.S. over $1.5 trillion annually, overloading hospitals, public health systems, and law enforcement.

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

Fentanyl is powerful synthetic opioid that can be up to 100 times more potent than morphine. It can be prescribed in formal medical settings to relieve severe pain and treat breakthrough pain when ...

Congressmen Don Davis (NC-01) and John Rutherford (FL-05) reintroduced bipartisan legislation, the Modern Authentication of ...

For those in need, those locations are all in on the fight against drug overdoses. You read that correctly.

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

It's the first new pharmaceutical approach to treating pain in over 20 years, designed to eliminate risks of addiction and ...

Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose ...

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

A new opioid database could provide some with a brand-new start to 2025.The Charleston Center recently released a real-time ...