A key part of the federal government’s narrative about the epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths in the U.S. has been that it is driven by doctors and other clinicians overprescribing opioid ...

The U.S. Surgeon General issued a rare national advisory Thursday urging more Americans to carry naloxone, a drug used to revive people overdosing on opioids. Naloxone is a medication designed to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crested Butte could have bought nine doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone with the amount of money the town has received so far from Colorado’s ...

What empty well do opioids fill in someone suffering from addiction? “The reason you get addicted is because something is missing for you. And... Opioids can 'feel like love.' Here's how that helps ...

You’re heading into surgery soon and your doctor has told you that you’re going to need prescription painkillers. You can’t help but think about all of the frightening reports over the last few years ...

A new study finds that an increasing number of surgeries — and the painkillers that follow — could derail recovery for those who once misused opioids.

Hundreds of Mississippians die every year from opioid overdoses, an epidemic that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands more nationwide. In a series of historic settlement agreements, ...

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Corey Newman started taking Percocet bought off the streets shortly after he was shot in the leg in 2019. It helped with the pain, he said, but before long he was hooked and “wasn’t functioning right.

Jerry Abrams, a 64-year-old marketing strategist in Minneapolis, used to run marathons. But two decades of degenerative spine disease have left him unable to run — and he's grieving. For Abrams, ...