Lima Mayor Sharetta Smith and Allen County Commissioner Beth Seibert went to Washington, D.C., with a message: Governments ...

CREOKS Health Services in McAlester gave its first quartly update on the city’s opioid abatement program to council this ...

Adam Meeks studied film at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts, where one can imagine the true-to-his-roots filmmaker learning ...

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

Approximately 88% of adults view opioid overdose deaths as a very serious problem with high agreement across political groups ...

Only about 1 in 3 pharmacies across the country are able to fill prescriptions for a critical treatment option for opioid addiction, according to a new study from the University of Southern California ...

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

A new vaccine being tested could offer another solution to help opioid users with an addiction. “All my life, I've been working on drugs of abuse like substance abuse disorder, etcetera,” Marco ...

In Huntington, West Virginia, opioid addiction has reshaped daily life in ways few American towns have experienced. Emergency ...

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...

Tyler Skaggs was an opioid addict for at least six years prior to the Los Angeles Angels pitcher’s 2019 death, an addiction expert testified on Wednesday, Dec. 10 in the ongoing wrongful death trial ...