Opioid painkillers that have led to thousands of deaths and new drug addicts should be the highest priority of the...
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Fatal drug overdoses in West Virginia continued to rise last year and its overdose death rate still far outpaces any...
West Virginia officials have reached a $3.5 million settlement with a wholesaler accused of flooding the state with millions of...
Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia’s opioid epidemic...
Drug overdose deaths, including opioid overdose deaths, continue to increase in the United States, according to new data from the...
Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728...
As Ohio’s overdose epidemic has climbed toward a record high, an army of lobbyists representing makers of prescription painkillers and...
Firefighters in Palm Beach County, Fla., have been responding to an average of five opioid-related overdoses every day this year....
So far, the fight against America’s opioid crisis has focused on treating addiction and curbing abuse. In February, President Barack...
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to curb abuse of heroin and opioid drugs, even while expressing...