A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House on Thursday evening, with 98 Democrats supporting the measure.

Fentanyl has emerged as the primary cause of illicit drug deaths in Canada and the United States, and its trafficking has ...

Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott and his allies in the Maryland General Assembly are pushing new legislation to ...

NOW. THE JACKSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS LAUNCHING A NEW EFFORT TO FIGHT OPIOID OVERDOSES. THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IS SENDING MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE TO JACKSON COUNTY ERS EVERY YEAR.

Narcan will also be available at the Durango Transit Center but will be kept behind a glass area so that the kits do not “walk away,” said Sarah Easley, the city’s safety and risk administrator.

Trump announced the plan before signing the Laken Riley Act, a law requiring Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft, burglary, larceny, or ...

Naloxone will soon be available at select Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) facilities as part of a new state initiative to address the opioid crisis. The program, formally ...

The study adds to the literature for investigating effects of MCL alone and RCL+MCL on opioid misuse and DSM-IV opioid use disorder overall and by prior cannabis use history. The findings also ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ “Journavx” on Thursday, greenlighting the non-opioid painkiller for treating moderate to severe pain in what the FDA considered the ...

Authorities arrested a 70-year-old Carrollton man last week after uncovering an illegal opioid distribution operation from ...

INJURIES RELATED TO THE RECALL. A PENNSYLVANIA STATE LAWMAKER IS PUSHING FOR THE OVERDOSE, REVERSING DRUG NARCAN TO BE PUT IN THE COMMONWEALTH’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IT’S A SPRAY OTHERWISE KNOWN AS ...

In the face of this growing crisis, the United States continues to face a devastating fentanyl crisis that has evolved into a ...