Rural counties in Southwest Pennsylvania are quickly matching pace with the region’s urban center in overdose medication ...

As Georgia navigates a widespread opioid addiction crisis, researchers in Kennesaw State University’s Wellstar School of ...

Cabell County and Huntington's eight-year legal fight with pain pill distributors had a critical round before the West Virginia Supreme Court.

The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human ...

If you had a machine that was manufacturing bullets in the commonwealth and you sold them, you couldn’t do that legally," a ...

Pat George, chairman of the Kansas Fights Addiction Act Grant Review Board, gives an update to the Senate Ways and Means ...

CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with a bipartisan coalition of states and other parties, today announced a $7.4 billion settlement in principle ...

The settlement payout will be delivered “directly” to communities over the next 15 years to support opioid addiction ...

The pharmacy chain since August 2012 filled prescriptions that lacked a legitimate medical purpose, were invalid or weren’t ...

At their bimonthly meeting Monday, Baltimore City Council members introduced legislation designed to improve health care for children and help emergency personnel respond to the opioid crisis.

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.