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Sonoma County will use millions of dollars awarded as part of a legal settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors ...

People in Sedgwick County could see expanded treatment options for substance use as the city and county plan how they will ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed Thursday to increase their financial contribution to $7.4 billion to resolve mass opioid litigation. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control ...

A surge of suspected overdose deaths this month in Cininnati has health officials questioning whether deadly carfentanil ...

Opioid prescriptions in the emergency department linked to small increases in hospital admission and subsequent opioid prescription use.

Canada has named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country’s fentanyl czar.

The Federal Drug Administration last month approved Journavx, a new kind of non-addictive pain medication. Doctors say ...

Young, urban and poor women in Puerto Rico are highly vulnerable to substance dependency and suffer most in the opioid crisis ...

Pennsylvania counties are tapping into opioid settlement money to support child welfare programs as they face staff shortages ...

More New Yorkers received scripts for buprenorphine, a med used to treat opioid addiction, amid fight against record-high ...