The White House launched a national data dashboard that for the first time tracks the rate of nonfatal opioid overdoses across the country, which health experts say will help accurately target ...

An academic study of opioid-tracking data from the Drug Enforcement Administration revealed a significant drop in retail codeine sales in states with legal adult-use cannabis, but little impact on ...

Republican State Sen. Doug Mastriano will highlight a new law expanding opioid overdose tracking at a press conference today ...

Despite the rising tide of opioid overdoses across the United States, the VA isn’t doing enough to identify and monitor signs of opioid addiction in U.S. service members as they transition out of the ...

Milwaukee County officials unveiled a new digital dashboard Tuesday to monitor opioid overdoses and direct resources to areas most in need. The initiative was announced at the King Community Center in ...

Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, poses a unique problem. It's not an opioid, so even when it's mixed with fentanyl, drugs designed to reverse an opioid overdose may not work. Narcan or naloxone, ...

Overall, there were 52, 586 opioid-naive Medicare beneficiaries discharged to SNFs after hip fracture hospitalizations with a mean age of 85.7 years and a mean SNF length of stay being 47.9 days.

More than $50 billion in settlement funds is being delivered to thousands of state and local governments from companies accused of flooding their communities with opioid painkillers that have left ...

Sitting among the warehouses of Dulles, Virginia, is one of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s forensic labs. It’s one of eight across the country where scientists analyze illegal drugs and try ...