July 28, 2020 Drug overdose cases and deaths are on the rise in dozens of states, and authorities in one Florida county say they believe...

July 22, 2020 The billionaire Sacklers who own Purdue Pharma, maker of the OxyContin painkiller that helped fuel America’s opioid...

July 17, 2020 Despite widespread devastation caused by America's opioid epidemic, an investigation by NPR found that doctors and other...

July 1, 2020 Suspected overdoses nationally jumped 18 percent in March, 29 percent in April and 42 percent in May, data from ambulance...

April 21, 2020 Once discharged, I realized how the beginning of my sobriety would go: no hugs from friends and family, no AA meetings in...

March 27, 2020 The US was already grappling with an epidemic of opioid overdoses. People in recovery say the coronavirus outbreak has...

March 27, 2020 Suboxone, a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone, helps many people addicted to opioids wean themselves from an...

April 2, 2020 The National Institute on Drug Abuse director warns the coronavirus could increase the pressure to use, cause complicated...

January 23, 2020 Former billionaire and pharmaceutical executive John Kapoor has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison....

January 20, 2020 Doctors have been increasingly prescribing benzodiazepines, also known as "benzos," in recent years. Looking at data...

December 30, 2019 This story follows Dr. Angela Gatzke-Plamann a family practice doctor who was confronted with the opioid crisis locally...

December 23, 2019 A new analysis of overdose data shows when and where the three waves of drugs took hold.

December 4, 2019 Today’s meth is far more potent than earlier versions, but because it isn’t an opioid, many federal addiction treatment...

September 4, 2019 Ben Westhoff, says fentanyl is now killing more Americans annually than any other drug in American history. Dealers are...

August 26, 2019 The judge presiding over the historic Oklahoma opioid trial will deliver his ruling Monday afternoon -- a decision that...

August 25, 2019 Dr. Barry Schultz is serving 157 years in prison after he prescribed enough opioids for a prosecutor to call him one of...

July 8, 2019 Travis Rieder, author of In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle With Opioids, says none of the doctors who prescribed...

June 3, 2019 America’s largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006...

June 5, 2019 The opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle federal criminal and civil charges that it...

June 6, 2019 One of the largest murder cases in Ohio history, involving a doctor accused of killing 25 patients, will hinge on his...