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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...