National pharmaceutical retailer Walgreens has agreed to pay at least $300 million to settle allegations it illegally ...

Prescriptions to prevent cravings and withdrawal symptoms see growth, but remain a fraction of opioid prescription counts.

At the conclusion of a trial in federal court, a jury convicted Southfield resident Charise Valentine, 69, of conspiracy to ...

From 2019 to 2021, opioid prescribing by US physicians in EDs declined, but it increased among PAs and nurses.

At least two Australians die of opioid-related overdoses every day, but Victorian police can’t carry a life-saving antidote.

There are many available harm reduction strategies, including needle exchange and clean IV using kits, naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose, and fentanyl test strips to detect contaminated samples ...

Maricopa County jail increases safety measures, including body scanners, after a K9 named Max suffered a suspected fentanyl ...

Opioids, antidepressants, and some NSAIDs increase the risk of constipation. Find out which ones do and what helps bowel ...

Union County Sheriff's Office celebrated a successful Drug Take-Back Day, collecting 86 pounds of unused meds.

Prison advocates worry that thousands of false positive drug test results have tainted the parole decisions for some ...

Four Vancouver pharmacists have been handed interim discipline by the College of Pharmacists of B.C. over allegations of mishandling prescription opioids. The college says the allegations are “so ...

Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have produced an unprecedented public health crisis in the United States. This ...