Drug manufacturer Purdue Pharma has decided to stop encouraging doctors across the country to write prescriptions for its painkiller, OxyContin, drawing positive...
There are multiple factors that have contributed to the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States, the most glaring of which have...
Philadelphia might soon become the first city in the United States to permit medically supervised drug injection sites in an effort to...
The number of women giving birth to infants undergoing drug withdrawal has increased over five times in Oregon since 2000. Dr. Barbara...
The Drug Enforcement Administration conducted a Take Back event on October 28 nationwide to give people the chance to turn in unused...
The state of Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing Endo International Plc of contributing to drug overdoses and the subsequent opioid epidemic...
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb proposed before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Wednesday that all addicts who...
The US Food and Drug Administration has joined authorities from 123 countries in cracking down on hundreds of online businesses suspected of...
CVS is now the first national pharmacy retailer to limit opioid prescriptions, announcing that it will cap the number of pain pills...
The state of South Carolina sued Purdue Pharma LP, the manufacturer of opioid OxyContin, last Tuesday. It is the latest local government...
Chicago is distributing naloxone to its at-risk inmates upon their release from prison, as part of a multifaceted approach to battling the...
A man in Mishawaka, Indiana killed himself right after shooting a doctor for refusing to prescribe opioids to his wife, according to...
Opioid overdoses continue to rise, and Ohio is not exempted from the epidemic that has been sweeping the nation. In Middletown, the...
A doctor in Oklahoma who prescribed massive amounts of painkillers to her patients has been charged with five counts of second-degree murder....
The current opioid epidemic sweeping the country has the US Food and Drug Administration nipping at the heels of drug manufacturers. The...
Small yellow pills that look like prescription drugs have been making the rounds in Georgia, leading to dozens of overdoses and at...
In the 1980s, a highly respected physician wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that out of close to 40,000 patients...
Over 4,000 people died from drug overdoses in Ohio last year, according to a newspaper survey of county coroners. Ohio has been...
The number of new Hepatitis C cases is increasing, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The...
Things just keep getting worse for America when it comes to the opioid crisis. Now, there’s a new drug in town that...