A dozen agencies in Danbury that provide addiction recovery, housing support and drug abuse prevention services will receive ...

Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, have reached a $7.4bn settlement with US states to resolve a long-running ...

Are dropping fentanyl-related death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction?

Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug ...

Since the opioid epidemic was declared an emergency in 2017, it has claimed more than 450,000 lives, but local drug and ...

During COVID-19, researchers found that low-dose buprenorphine initiation for fentanyl users was largely unsuccessful, with ...

A pending settlement against Purdue Pharma for fueling what Attorney General Dave Sunday called an opioid crisis may bring up ...

Kratom is known for its stimulant and opioid-like effects and is derived from the leaves of a tree in the coffee family, the Southeast Asian tree Mitragyna speciosa. This differs from another natural ...

The president claims that overdose deaths are really 300,000, when the government reports 90,000. “They’re killing our people ...

A new study published today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared with opioid injecting. The authors, however, ...

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in upward income ...