Addiction

A work program designed to help keep Delaware’s streets clean is also helping those struggling with addiction work to recovery.

The coffee giant also has needle disposals at the ready.

For the first time, a federal court in Ohio is releasing a trove of data that offers far more detail about the size and scope of the nation's opioid epidemic

The new measures boost awareness of opioid misuse, add warning labels on medicine bottles containing opiates, and write MAT into law in New Jersey.

The number of cases of children entering the foster care system due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to research published this week

Consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson was a "kingpin" company that helped fuel the most devastating public health crisis in Oklahoma history, the AG argued Monday.

Dozens of prosecutors across the country are now backing Safehouse.

The state, where 5,400 people fatally overdosed in 2017, was chosen in hopes it could offer models for both hard-hit rural and urban regions.

A new study of Delaware overdose deaths in 2018 found 52% of people who died had visited the emergency room within three months of their death.

The move coincides with the first major update on the emergency response to the opioid crisis since the last homeless encampment was closed in Kensington.

The Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention found opioids played a role in nearly 48,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

Six months in, opponents say a smoking ban at Philadelphia inpatient addiction treatment centers is a barrier to getting started for some. Others leave early.

One hundred seventy-four pharmacies participated in what the state believed was the largest single-day U.S. public distribution of the opioid-reversing drug.

The WHO notified lawmakers that it will discontinue two publications on prescribing opioids in response to allegations that the pharmaceutical industry influenced the reports.

One bill in the package imposes a 7-day limit on opioid painkiller prescriptions for all adults.