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

If anything, this was a wakeup call because this city, this state and this country have been fighting back against opioids — and with some success. Overdose deaths are down substantially. Baltimore ...

Confirmation that a man died after consuming the super toxic drug carfentanil prompted Riverside County health officials Thursday to remind residents to take precautions before consuming any kind of ...

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

Oregon will receive $10.1 million for drug prevention and treatment services as part of a nationwide settlement with eight ...

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

As part of a national class action lawsuit, drug companies and pharmacies have to pay $1 billion to Massachusetts over 18 years. Sixty percent of the money goes to the state to distribute, and 40 ...

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 ...

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

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

Patients with newly diagnosed musculoskeletal pain who received opioids at higher doses for longer durations had increased risk for OUD.

More than two dozen Republican attorneys general urged Congress to pass the bill, calling it "vital" to addressing the opioid ...