An audit released by the Suffolk County Comptroller Tuesday found that the county’s system for selecting, awarding and ...

Medicaid paying for the treatment of a patient’s substance use disorder makes financial sense, an emergency room-based ...

Spotlight PA answers your questions about Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis — who’s affected, what’s being done, and how you can ...

Medications proven to effectively treat opioid addiction are rarely given after emergency department visits for overdose, and ...

Despite medical advances and health scares, thousands of U.S. doctors continue to prescribe opioids to treat pain, keeping ...

Albuquerque City Councilors approved a resolution to use Opioid Settlement Funds to build a new Sobering Center as part of the Gateway system. The money is part of an $80 million package the city ...

The Trump administration has proposed terminating a $56 million annual grant program that distributes naloxone, also known by ...

Prescriptions to prevent cravings and withdrawal symptoms see growth, but remain a fraction of opioid prescription counts.

Scientists have developed a highly sensitive method to detect illegal opioids and a veterinary sedative in Australia's wastewater system, providing a vital early warning tool to public health ...

There are many available harm reduction strategies, including needle exchange and clean IV using kits, naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose, and fentanyl test strips to detect contaminated samples ...