opioids

The U.S. has sanctioned more than a dozen people and businesses in China and Mexico that allegedly helped provide machines used to make counterfeit prescription drugs.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed one of the nation’s largest drug distributors to keep shipping addictive painkillers for nearly four years despite a judge’s recommendation to strip its license for turning a blind eye to thousands of suspicious opioid orders.

Students at a Philadelphia school were hospitalized Wednesday after they drank grape juice laced with an opioid substance, officials said. 

Narcan, the best-known form of naloxone, can reverse overdoses of opioids like heroin and fentanyl.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved selling overdose antidote naloxone over-the-counter, marking the first time a opioid treatment drug will be available without a prescription.

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction.

The study’s sobering findings underscore the extent of the opioid epidemic’s impact on children, according to its lead author.

Access has improved across the U.S. to a rescue drug that reverses opioid overdoses, but advocates say naloxone — commonly known by its brand name Narcan — still isn’t getting to everyone who needs it. A small group of volunteers run an organization that appears to be the largest distributor of naloxone in Albany, Georgia. But many communities lack similar...

An art teacher at a New Jersey middle school has been arrested after he overdosed on fentanyl in front of students mid-class, police said.

Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year. That’s according to final figures released Thursday.

CVS and Walgreens have agreed to a combined $10.7 billion to settle allegations they failed to adequately oversee opioid prescriptions, thus contributing to America’s addiction crisis.

Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the impact of the prescriptions its pharmacies filled for powerful prescription opioid painkillers. The deal would still need to be approved by 43 states to take effect. It follows a similar announcement from pharmacy chains CVS Health and Walgreen Co. They each said they would pay about $5...

Among the changes: The CDC no longer suggests trying to limit opioid treatment for acute pain to three days.

For International Overdose Awareness Day, a nonprofit organization teamed up with Loretto Hospital staff to host a free opioid overdose reversal seminar for Chicago residents. NBC 5’s Kye Martin reports.

A federal judge in Cleveland has awarded $650 million in damages to two Ohio counties that sued pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart saying their opioid distribution policies created a public nuisance.

“I was on top of the world and I ruined it,” the 32-year-old star said in a new interview.

A jury on Wednesday acquitted an Ohio doctor in the deaths of multiple hospital patients

The changes aim to foster individualized patient care and offer more short-term, acute pain treatment options.

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

Thousands of towns across the United States that were wracked by the opioid crisis are on the precipice of receiving billions of dollars in the second-biggest legal settlement in U.S. history