One promising approach is a dedicated specialist to prevent ordinary pain management from turning into the kind of addiction ...

On March 21, construction begin at the old National Guard Armory in Purvis to convert the building into a Crisis ...

An epidemic of opioid addiction has swept through Tennessee, exacting a toll on families, children, police departments, emergency rooms and communities. In 1995, the Food and Drug Administration ...

Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Tuesday that money from Colorado's opioid settlement will go into a statewide fund to ...

Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma received court approval on Friday to begin voting on its $7.4 billion bankruptcy settlement, ...

“We will not stop fighting to hold opioid companies accountable for the devastation they’ve caused,” A.G. Rayfield said. “Oregon families deserve justice, and every dollar we recover will ...

Opioid crisis renews focus on expanding access to methadone treatment. While the numbers are finally starting to decline, more than 74,000 Americans are still dying every year from opioid overdoses.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma ‘s $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids will go before ...

The Trump administration's plan to address the opioid crisis focuses on preventing overdose deaths, but neglects the opportunity to prevent addiction in the first place, and instead relies on ...

A decade ago, it was reasonable to talk about the opioid crisis as a sign that the country was, in some profound way, crying out in pain. But it is hard to know exactly what meaning to extract ...