While youth overdose deaths rates from opioid misuse have seemingly decreased, general awareness of treatment and risk is ...

But buprenorphine’s strength as a treatment is also a weakness. Buprenorphine is an opioid. Like methadone, the tightly ...

None of the higher education institutions in Bloomington-Normal report having overdoses on campus, but health officials still ...

Explore how harm reduction strategies in King County impact the opioid crisis and the concept of Battlefield Addiction.

Parents concerned about their children abusing drugs and alcohol should simply talk to them about the issue, according to ...

Shila Green is convinced she'd be dead if it weren't for a clean supply of opioids she received while in the throes of ...

Area police departments are taking part in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction and recovery at a ...

An animal tranquilizer is the new drug on the street in. Medetomidine is not approved for human use, but doctors say people ...

Law enforcement agencies and public health officials across the Mid-Ohio Valley are gearing up for this Saturday’s National ...

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, with health and law enforcement agencies working to get rid of ...

Last year, the second appropriation from the settlement funds was made, having a significant impact across the state. These funds supported Alabama’s 988 Crisis Line, a veterans’ pilot program, mental ...