Tennessee's Opioid Abatement Council is releasing its first community grants totaling nearly $81 million to programs treating opioid addiction. The council approved 116 grants to 85 entities ...
Some health agencies in Europe are reporting a rise in deaths and overdoses from a type of synthetic opioid that can reportedly be hundreds of times stronger than heroin and up to forty times ...
Events in a Delaware federal courtroom last week have made the federal government’s bid to duck accountability for the opioid crisis untenable. U.S. District Judge Colm Connolly dismissed much ...
The opioid epidemic in the United States was sparked by the proliferation of legal — and highly addictive — prescription pain pills in the late 1990s. (Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images ...
The psychedelic ibogaine is unlikely to ever receive approval as a treatment for opioid addiction, the federal government’s top addiction researcher said Thursday. The remarks from Nora Volkow ...
Nearly all involve fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin. Patients are sometimes unaware that the drugs they took were laced. “It’s a scary age that we live in and things ...
Nurse practitioner Jeffrey Young Jr. known as “Rock Doc” was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for illegally prescribing opioids in exchange for sex and money. The Rock Doc TV Show In a ...
A federal appeals court asked West Virginia’s highest court Monday whether opioid distributions can cause a public nuisance as it reviews a landmark lawsuit against three major U.S. drug ...