opioids

Charges involve more than 350,000 prescriptions for controlled substances and more than 32 million pills across eight states.

Expert says the healthcare system 'left an opening for industry, and they took the opening.'

The opioid epidemic is spurring medical institutions around the country to create fellowships for aspiring doctors who want to treat...

While the reduction is impressive, it's still short of the 40% reduction goal set forward by the Utah-based health system...

As OxyContin addiction spurred a national nightmare, a member of the family that has reaped billions of dollars from the...

Such co-prescribing mandates are emerging as the latest tactic in a war against an epidemic that has claimed hundreds of...

A new study finds that as many as half of the patients taking highly potent transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl should not...

Study suggests that emergency department clinicians squander an opportunity to divert opioid overdose patients toward drug and mental health therapies...

State regulators have formally accused at least 23 doctors of negligent prescribing. More accusations are expected.

As opioids become harder to get, police said, more people have turned to meth, which is inexpensive and readily available....

The bill slated to be signed Wednesday includes several provisions that could directly affect stakeholders in the business side of...