Look back at all the bold-faced names we lost in 2023... Denny Laine -- the British singer-guitarist best known from his time with the Moody Blues and Wings -- died on Dec. 5 after a week in the ...
The opioid withdrawal timeline varies from person to person. It can depend on overall health and the type of opioid used. However, symptoms can appear as soon as a person misses their next opioid ...
The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into consulting firm McKinsey related to its past role in advising some of the nation’s largest opioid manufacturers on how to boost ...
Thousands of online adverts have been found selling deadly new super-strength opioids which have already been linked to over 100 UK deaths. Nitazenes – which were recently made Class A illegal ...
ABC News’ Dr. Jen Ashton discusses how the number of emergency visits among children for prescription opioids had decreased for a decade but increased between 2019 and 2020. A U.S. citizen has ...
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs. To the Editor: Re “The D.E.A. Should Get Out of Public Health,” by Shravani Durbhakula ...
A detox center. Aid for an overflowing jail. An extra detective’s salary. These are a few of the things people in Whitley County, Ky., would like to fund with their small share of billions of ...
State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address the drug crisis that has ravaged America for decades. But instead of spending the money on new ...
TOMS RIVER - After prescribing opioids without proper patient examinations, a doctor from Toms River has been sentenced to two years in prison and barred from practicing medicine, authorities said.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane City Council adopted Mayor Lisa Brown's proposal to invest an initial allocation of opioid settlement funds during this week's legislative meeting. City Council members ...
In the next 24 hours, more than 130 people will die from opioid-related drug overdoses. That will happen again tomorrow and the next day. Each year, the U.S. is losing roughly 110,000 people to ...
More than 100,000 people a year in the United States are dying from opioid overdoses. (Mark Lennihan/AP) A group of public health experts and scientists is calling on the Food and Drug ...