Pennsylvania counties are tapping into opioid settlement money to support child welfare programs as they face staff shortages ...

A Family Overdose Support Fund, potentially the first of its kind nationwide, will offer families impacted by the overdose crisis financial aid to pay for things like funerals and mental health ...

With opioid prescriptions plummeting and no more pharma companies to sue, America's drug warriors are running out of bogeymen ...

Legislation has been introduced for the 2025 General Assembly which is aimed at addressing the ongoing opioid crisis in ...

It’s based on an opioid called oxycodone – which is stronger than morphine. And, like MS Contin, one of the selling points of Oxycontin is that it’s slow release. This, they say, means the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Chronic pain affects hundreds of millions of people around the world. But the opioid crisis in North America led many health care providers to realize they relied too heavily on ...

The high court’s 1935 ruling in the Humphrey’s Executor case, which has protected federal agency independence, was called out ...

The opioid crisis has not spared the older population, with a stark increase in overdose deaths among those aged 65 and older. Diagnoses of opioid use disorder in this demographic climbed to 1.1 ...

“When someone is experiencing a mental health crisis or struggling with opioid addiction, the response needs to be thoughtful, compassionate, and ultimately informed, and for the longest ...

The settlement would ban Endo from promoting opioids and require it to hand over millions of documents related to its role in the opioid crisis for publication in a public online archive.