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

Senators discussed strategies to combat toxic opioid at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled "The Poisoning of America ...

The Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Response Center is set to launch this year, and would give community pharmacies in the state ...

A new opioid-free pain medication was approved by the FDA on Thursday, marking a non-addictive alternative for patients.

A movie filed in Eastern Kentucky last summer is making the rounds in movie theatres all over the world. The movie is called ...

Mesa has announced it's launching a $1 million grant program in an effort to prevent and reduce opioid use in the city.

The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioids epidemic in the United States. Oregon officials declared a 90-day ...

The drug, shown to be almost as effective as opioids for short-term pain, is the first fundamentally new kind of painkiller ...

Pennsylvania looks likely to receive another big infusion of money from another court settlement over responsibility for the nation’s ongoing opioid epidemic. If the settlement is finalized, it will ...