The Sackler family owners of Purdue Pharma are offering to increase their financial contribution to a bankruptcy settlement ...

Georgia State University researchers are looking at factors that cause people to remain unhoused, especially in more rural ...

A new study led by a Georgia State University researcher finds that the opioid epidemic and rural homelessness are ...

Opioids are killing fewer people in Florida, according to a new state report. All drug-related deaths dipped by 5% in general. But opioid-related deaths dropped even further and fell 11% in 2023 ...

In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, near a storefront advertising "free" cellphones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a ...

Methamphetamine deaths in the U.S. rose 61-fold from 1999 to 2021, according to a new study, highlighting a growing crisis in ...

The pattern did not hold for individuals in states with recreational cannabis laws, suggesting that MCLs may be associated with reductions in opioid use among people using cannabis but additional ...

A University of Mississippi (UM) study showed a meteoric rise in methamphetamine deaths in the U.S. since the turn of the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two Indian chemical companies have been indicted for allegedly importing ingredients for the highly addictive opioid fentanyl into the United States and Mexico, the U.S ...

A push to reform the American diet is being driven largely by conservatives who have taken up a cause that has long been a ...

A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as ...