CLEVELAND, Ohio — Opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. fell sharply from 2023 to 2024, driven largely by decreases in deaths ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the years since 2017 when the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency, more than half a million ...

We can’t solve what we can’t measure, so let’s use opioid abatement funds to help. Comprehensive toxicology would let us ...

Virginia Tech researchers are advancing a new generation of vaccines designed to block opioids from reaching the brain and ...

The national Six Remnant Defendants lawsuit was brought Feb. 23. The total compensation paid to participating governments ...

In January 2017, the CDC reported more than 64,000 annual deaths related to drug overdose — a 21 percent increase from 2016 alone.1 To put this statistic into perspective, the number of drug overdose ...

With all the news about the opioid epidemic, there's an unexpected group in trouble: older people. In fact, an analysis of government data shows more than 500,000 Medicare recipients received high ...

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WPVI) -- The ABC7 I-Team looked into the most heartbreaking development of the opioid epidemic: tiny lives that begin drug dependent. They can't "just say no" because they are ...

Billions in settlement dollars are helping EMS agencies modernize equipment, strengthen staffing and expand overdose response ...

116 daily deaths, 42,249 yearly deaths, and $504 billion were the statistics that haunted Americans as a result of the opioid epidemic in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...