Severe flooding may contribute to higher mortality rates from opioid use in rural Appalachia, according to a study by researchers at Penn State. The findings—published in the Proceedings of the ...

As the founder of Selah, a Brooklyn-based Jewish community for people in recovery, Arielle Krule aims to train 2,000 people this year to use the emergency medicine. Sitting with about a dozen young ...

New data from the CDC shows that opioid overdoses are on the decline, but the battle is far from over. Susan Pitman, the founder of Drug Free Duval, and the mother of an overdose victim joined us to ...

NEW YORK — Not long ago, a neighbor in the community experienced an overdose outside the doors of the Alliance for Positive Change’s center in Harlem, New York. A passerby brought the person inside, ...

Opioid prescribing by pain medicine specialists increased between 2010 and 2024, but overall prescribing declined, especially ...

As President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill slowly makes its way through the Senate, I, among others, have spent a good deal of time wondering, why does this bill seem so overwhelming? There is ...

Researchers with the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine received a grant to learn how opioid use affects the brain and ...

There was a substantial increase in recent years in the use of a form of the primary medication to treat opioid use disorder, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Springfield Police Department is marking seven years since officers began carrying Narcan, ...

Naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing medication commonly known by its brand name Narcan, was central to the response of a mass overdose event in Baltimore Thursday. The city, as part of its ...