Opioid Crisis

The Centers for Disease Control revealed Wednesday that the U.S. set a grim record in 2021 with 107,000 overdose deaths.

The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress

State attorneys in Florida say pharmacy chain Walgreens ignored red flags that signaled the pharmacies were contributing to the opioid crisis. Walgreens stores in the Tampa area had abnormally high numbers of opioid prescriptions and pills distributed, prosecutors say. Walgreens attorneys say the company was misled by pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma about the potency of the drugs.

There often is a serious downside for people taking medications that have a long track record of helping treat opioid addiction: discrimination

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions

U.S. government officials said synthetic opioids are akin to “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”

Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors

A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis

As the pandemic ravaged the country, deaths from drug overdoses surged by nearly 30%, surpassing 100,000 dead for the first time in American history.

A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.

A federal jury says three retail pharmacy chains didn’t do enough to stop the flow of opioid pills into two Ohio counties

Experts believe the top drivers are the growing prevalence of deadly fentanyl in the illicit drug supply and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has taken the state’s case against the nation’s three biggest drug distributors to trial

A bellwether trial is set to start Monday in federal court in Cleveland to determine whether retail pharmacy chains are liable for costs related to the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties

A trial is now underway for a potential opioid vaccine — meant to protect against a deadly opioid overdose.

Even as we emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, the ongoing opioid epidemic continues to get worse, studies show.

Four companies say they’ll move ahead with a $26 billion settlement of lawsuits over the opioid crisis.

Dr. Lynn Fiellin of Yale Medical School and LX News host Tabitha Lipkin talk about reducing the stigma of addiction using a video game. Fiellin helped develop PlaySmart, a point-and-click game catered to older teens that simulates life choices around opioid use.