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...

May 22, 2019 Washington Post provides a thorough examination of America’s deadliest drug epidemic.

April 24, 2019 The United States attorney’s office in Manhattan accused Rochester Drug Cooperative of conspiring to distribute drugs and...

April 25, 2019 A new poll by NPR and Ipsos finds a third of Americans have been touched directly by the deadly opioid epidemic that still...

April 25, 2019 More than 20 years after the first uptick in opioid overdose deaths in the United States, two groups are pitted in a...

April 12, 2019 Drug enforcement experts in San Diego are warning about a new, deadlier opioid on the streets -- Carfentanil.

April 11, 2019 Seizures of large quantities of fentanyl, a powerful and frequently deadly synthetic opioid, have become increasingly...

April 9, 2019 These changes will provide expanded guidance to health care professionals on how to safely decrease the dose in patients...

March 26, 2019 Deaths from a synthetic opioid called fentanyl have been on the rise nationally, and last week’s findings from the U.S....

August 7, 2018 The University of Michigan recently released that young people ages 13- 30 are 2.7 times more likely to continue filling...