The city of Durham is poised to allocate nearly $1 million to support organizations on the frontlines of the opioid crisis.

The first round of $175,000 in Big Pharma funds goes to local agencies devoted to education, prevention, intervention, harm ...

What started as a medical solution for pain management spiraled into a nationwide addiction crisis. Drugs like OxyContin, ...

North Carolina was among 15 states to reach the $7.4 billion settlement in January with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the ...

Between 2011 to 2021, an estimated 321,566 children lost a parent to drug overdose. Parental deaths from drug overdose rose ...

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This year is PureWow's 15th anniversary, and though I haven’t been on the team for that entire time, I have worked here for ...

After my brother snapped his collarbone and was prescribed morphine pills to ease his suffering, my first instinct was fear. Prescription opioids are the cause of many addictions across North America.

Plus, pharmacy groups famed for opioid bankruptcies join forces and the mysterious Deutsche Bank employee making more than its CEO ...

The Boulder County District Attorney’s Office has created a new position within their Center for Prevention and Restorative ...

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Endo have agreed to combine in a nearly $7bn deal after the pair emerged from bankruptcy processes linked to liabilities over the US opioid crisis.

Publix Super Markets is accused in a lawsuit of dispensing opioids without red-flag controls, amid soaring sales of the prescriptions.