A common rite of passage—having your wisdom teeth pulled—might be raising the risk of teens and young adults becoming…
The UK’s National Crime Agency—which handles organized and transnational crime—claims that at least some of the dark…
The health of the United States remains in decline, according to a series of new reports released Thursday by the…
The devastation wrought by opioids in recent years is only part of a much larger drug crisis in the United States that…
Our sewage reveals a lot more about us than what we ate over the weekend. Scientists at Murray State University in…
More people are dying from drug overdoses in the U.S. than ever before, according to a new preliminary report released…
For the first time in U.S. history, a death row inmate has been killed with a lethal injection containing fentanyl, a…
The State of New York is suing Purdue Pharma, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers,…
A recent survey suggests that some people struggling with opioid addiction might be turning to a tragically desperate…
People are increasingly turning to an unconventional drug to supplement their opioid addiction, suggests a new report pu…
Despite a growing awareness of the dangers and risks of opioid addiction among doctors and patients, the average amount…
Scientists are scrambling to find painkillers that can ease suffering without the addictive potential of opioids. One…
People living with opioid addiction are increasingly using the inhalation method to get high, warns a new review publish…
Federal prosecutors have charged hundreds of people with allegedly defrauding the US government’s health care system…
The death toll of the US opioid crisis has been seriously lowballed, suggests a new study published Wednesday in Public…
The state of Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, the company that developed the semisynthetic…
On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health revealed its new plan to tackle the opioid crisis, which it dubbed the…
It’s no secret that opioids kill more Americans annually than ever before. But a new study published Friday in JAMA…
The US likely experienced its third consecutive year of a sagging life expectancy in 2017, based on preliminary data…
New research out today in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights yet another impact of the opioid crisis: More…
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