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

Colorado is set to receive around $81 million from a $7.4 billion preliminary settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company’s ...

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

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

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

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

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

Delta County is soliciting proposals for grants to aid in the treatment and prevention of opioid abuse. “In response to the ongoing opioid epidemic, significant settlements have been reached with ...

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.

Older Black men account for a growing share of Milwaukee drug deaths as fentanyl creeps into cocaine supplies, catching a generation unaware.

Rooting Out the Root Cause of the Opioid Crisis. I read with interest your detailed coverage of how states are spending billions of fu ...