Five months after ending the sale of synthetic marijuana, the City Council is turning its attention to kratom, concerned it could set off a new wave of opioid addiction. Kratom in its natural form is ...

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 federal bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday formally approved OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to settle thousands of ...

What We’re Reading, July 14, 2016: Inaccurate provider directories in California health plans; atehnahealth survey identifies low physician engagement; and opioid addiction bill will soon be law.

From R&B concerts in New Jersey to a 1950s sock hop in Connecticut, new data shows wide variation in how governments are ...

The company that makes OxyContin, members of the Sackler family who own it and many groups that sued over its role in the ...

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the system to reduce overdoses and in-custody deaths.

The new agreement replaces one the US Supreme Court rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of ...

William Brown, a single father in his 40s, overcame his opioid addiction and went back to college after a series of run-ins with the law. He credits his recovery to UNC REACH, a medical clinic that ...

The Democrats weakened the borders, allowing Mexican drug cartels to smuggle fentanyl into the United States, where it ...

For the first time, Slatington has a state-licensed outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment program for drug and ...