Last Saturday, police in Chico, California reported that 13 people in the same house were involved in a mass drug…
The UK’s National Crime Agency—which handles organized and transnational crime—claims that at least some of the dark…
The devastation wrought by opioids in recent years is only part of a much larger drug crisis in the United States that…
The ultimate goal of pain medicine—a powerful painkiller with few to no side effects, such as dependence or overdose—is…
In recent years, the party drug and anesthetic ketamine has been embraced as a rapidly-acting, if still off-label,…
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,…
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…
Federal prosecutors have charged hundreds of people with allegedly defrauding the US government’s health care system…
A new study could revive an abandoned theory about how to treat narcolepsy, the thus-far incurable disorder that makes…
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…
Walmart has announced that the company will roll out new restrictions on opioid prescriptions this summer at Walmart…
Amidst the worsening opioid crisis—which killed more than 42,000 Americans in 2016 and even shortened US life expectancy
Who you are is the result of a complicated interplay between your environment, your genes, and probably a few other…
Purdue Pharmaceuticals, one of the companies which has made billions of dollars selling massive amounts of opioids…
As doctors and scientists struggle to turn the tide of the opioid crisis, which killed more than 63,000 Americans in…
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