The criminal justice system has been the federal government's main avenue for tackling drug addiction since President Richard Nixon effectively launched the "War on Drugs" in 1971. But drug overdose ...

A Canadian study finds that as fentanyl use began increasing in 2014, opioid agonist treatment duration with methadone or ...

Rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, he was discharged a few hours later. The fact that he had snorted all of the ...

Audio from emergency dispatches show a single call for help for a 27-year-old woman quickly spiraled into a much larger ...

Now, experts say, fentanyl, a cheap, synthetic opiate originally dreamed up to treat people with end-of-life cancer, is either trekked in across the U.S.’s southern border by American mules, where ...

Former Mississippi State, Titans star and artist teamed up blending music, charity, and opioid awareness for local youth ...

Using outdated newspaper vending boxes, the opioid awareness group Micah’s Hugs is installing free naloxone distribution ...

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the naloxone distribution program would gut programs that train and equip ...

Rep. Kate Donaghue has a trick for always ensuring naloxone is on hand and ready to deploy if she encounters someone ...

The City of Frederick on Friday said it remains ready to respond to opioid overdoses following what officials called “a mass overdose event” occurred in Baltimore on Thursday. The Baltimore Sun ...

Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of ...