The KING 5 Investigators expose a state child endangerment law that calls for tough penalties when people expose children to ...

A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House ...

When he was 13, he brought a backpack full of pills from his parents’ medicine chest — Benadryl, Tylenol, prescription ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Journavx for short-term pain that often follows surgery or injuries.

The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with St. George News.

Data shows that more than 26.6 million prescription pain pills were supplied to Aroostook County residents between 2006 and ...

The drug, shown to be almost as effective as opioids for short-term pain, is the first fundamentally new kind of painkiller to win FDA approval in more than 20 years.

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to more serious opioids like heroin and fentanyl, being dispensed at the Alameda Health ...

While partly off the radar for many, the opioid crisis is still unfolding and continuing ... Administration’s newest National Drug Threat Assessment, 49 states and Washington, D.C., have all reported ...