Despite an overall decline in prescribed opioid use in Canada over the past decade, a recent study found that people in ...

Despite an overall decline in prescribed opioid use in Canada over the past decade, a recent study found that people in poorer areas receive three times the prescriptions for opioids than those in ...

Carfentanil is a fentanyl derivative that is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine, ...

HISD students are drinking and smoking less than they were a decade ago. But the use of prescription and illicit medications, ...

Opioid prescriptions have long been used as a medicine for lower back pain in emergency rooms; however, in the past few years ...

President Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act to categorize fentanyl analogues as Schedule 1 drugs, aiming to close ...

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Monday his office secured $14.4 million in additional settlement dollars from opioid manufacturers.

The victim, identified only as a resident in his 40s, died from the drug overdose in March, but extended delays conducting ...

Baltimore leaders discussed strategies for tackling the city's opioid crisis with residents in the same community where 27 ...

Health officials in Riverside County have confirmed the county’s first death linked to carfentanil, a synthetic opioid ...

Losing access to addiction medications doubles overdose risk. A new analysis says projected Medicaid cuts could add 1,000 ...

But taking them abroad isn’t always simple. From legal pitfalls to temperature-sensitive drugs, here’s how to travel safely and legally with your medication. Medicines that are legal in the UK can be ...