Health insurance loss, changes "may undermine continuity of critical treatment," researche ...

Tennessee’s overdose surveillance system is not designed to detect newly engineered synthetic opioids quickly. The emergence ...

A peer navigator intervention following a nonfatal opioid overdose in the emergency department does not significantly reduce ...

To save lives and decrease overdose fatalities, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is offering free naloxone—an effective medication that reverses opioid overdoses—at ...

Socially vulnerable counties face higher overdose deaths and treatment needs, findings that could help prioritize funding and programming responses, according to Rutgers researchers Opioids such as ...

L.A. County halted sales of kratom products over concern about potential overdoses. Some say officials aren't considering how ...

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

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

Municipalities in Maine spent more than $3 million in opioid settlement funds last year but that's only a fraction of the ...

There are signs the presence of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, may be declining in Montana. The drug was largely responsible for the increase of opioid overdose deaths during the pandemic. Now ...

Supplying Narcan at the library is a “no-brainer,” according to Ellen Riggsbee, the marketing and communications manager for ...