Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

Veterans could get free naloxone at VA clinics without a prescription under a bipartisan bill targeting overdose prevention.

The ongoing opioid epidemic highlights health care’s role in fueling the crisis as well as the highly addictive nature of ...

For many Americans, a routine surgical procedure serves as their first introduction to opioid pain medication. While most ...

A new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence found that US states that legalized marijuana for medical and adult recreational use saw a 9-to-11-percentage-point decline in daily ...

Say a fentanyl user has a highly visible “Do Not Resuscitate” on their person (tattoo, T-shirt, necklace, whatever), and this ...

For years, buprenorphine—one of the primary medications used to treat opioid use disorder—has been a critical bridge to recovery, helping to reduce illicit drug use and overdose deaths. But with the ...

One county in Colorado has committed to investing more than $4 million into opioid prevention, treatment and recovery. It's ...

Opioid-related deaths are now the leading cause of death among Wisconsin school-aged children—and new legislation aims to change that.

The Ward County Detention Center is seeing success with an opioid use disorder treatment program that has been the first of ...

A committee of the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority approved more than half a million dollars in new grants this month, ...

The new vending machine providing free naloxone around the clock is located near the University of Southern Mississippi at ...