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 combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed ...

The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Standard-Examiner.  The ...

With the rise of obesity drugs a pair of Penn State researchers set out to answer a question: could drugs aimed at weight ...

Covering the opioid epidemic—from the individual patient to illegal synthetic fentanyl coming across the borders and into our communities—experts within the Methodist University community ...

The opioid crisis in 2023, amid the Biden administration, cost the U.S. $2.7 trillion, according to a Council of Economic ...

Law enforcement in Mohave County is leaving behind Narcan, along with a brochure on how to use it in a community gripped with opioids. Lisa Espinoza was outraged because her son, 31-year-old Larry ...

The opioid epidemic is still an ongoing problem and there is no single solution to bring it under control. Ben Hargreaves finds that a new line of attack could be the development of more effective ...

In 2017, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic – which then was taking the lives of over 100 people each day – to be the “worst drug crisis in American history”. As he returns to ...

The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications is associated with a pattern of escalating opioid intake, ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...