Opioid overdoses continue to take a devastating toll across the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Many states are looking to prescription databases to help fight the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic across the United States, reports The Wall Street Journal. Here are three takeaways on the ...

Lifesaving or wasteful? Opinion is divided on the ways local communities are using opioid settlement funds. Survivors of the overdose crisis and families who’ve lost loved ones to it are raising ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — When someone overdoses, paramedics and EMS are usually the first people arriving to help. That's why a new law in Pennsylvania is helping first responders and EMS with combating ...

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.

American Medical Response (AMR) released its annual suspected opioid overdose statistical report earlier this month for New ...

A bill proposed in this year’s Maryland General Assembly would require more transparency with how local government agencies spend money received from opioid case ...

Ezell Ruffin, a counselor, restocks the supply of Naloxone in a vending machine at the Linn County Mental Health Access Center, 501 13th St. NW, in Cedar Rapids on June 28, 2024. The machine dispenses ...