LICADD has been addressing substance use for nearly 70 years, but that fight is not stopping, nor is it's intensity lessening ...

U.S. Senators propose the Alternatives to PAIN Act to increase access to non-opioid pain treatments for seniors.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Oregon has allocated $5.1 million from state opioid crisis settlement funds for harm reduction programs through the Oregon Health Authority, OHA announced Thursday.

The federal government has long sought to prevent the horrors of drug addiction by interdicting the supply of dangerous ...

These limited options have made opioids the only choice for many people who experience serious pain, whether acute or chronic, and it has fueled an opioid crisis that kills more than 100,000 ...

DETERMINED A MOTIVE. THE STORE IS, HOWEVER, BACK OPEN. EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES AND FIGHT THE OPIOID CRISIS ARE GETTING A BOOST IN LOUISVILLE, WITH NALOXONE BOXES BEING INSTALLED AT FIRE STATIONS ...

A statement issued by the White House describes the synthetic opioid as ... of millions of Americans." These claims are false. While the overdose epidemic is a serious crisis, experts in law ...

Just when you thought the opioid crisis may have peaked, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, arguably the world’s foremost anti-opioid zealot, has found a shiny new way to inflate the numbers. In the HHS’s redefining ...

and 10% of those will have "prolonged opioid use." In 2023, more than five million Americans 12 and older reported a "prescription use disorder" within the past year, according to the Centers for ...

Mike Yakawich, a Billings Republican. Opioid makers who have settled with states for their role in the igniting an addiction crisis shouldn't get paid by states if they later develop and sell ...

The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, the maker of the addictive painkiller oxycontin, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement ...

Americans consume more illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world; about 6% of the U.S. population uses them regularly. One such drug, fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that’s 50 to ...