The number of U.S. individuals on long-term opioid therapy fell from 5.6 million in 2015 to 4.2 million in 2023. Co-prescribing opioids with gabapentinoids increased, however, reaching 58.7% in 2023.

For decades, the opioid crisis has devastated communities across the United States. More than 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to overdoses since the epidemic began, leaving families shattered ...

More good news in the battle against opioid addiction. Scientists have reopened research into a class of opioids that were once shelved from study — and have discovered a variant that’s a powerful ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a novel, highly potent opioid that shows potential as a therapy for both pain and opioid use disorder. In a study published in ...

Far fewer people are using opioids than a decade ago, surveys indicate, and substance use experts and former opioid users say that — along with increased use of the anti-opioid nasal spray naloxone — ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. fell sharply from 2023 to 2024, driven largely by decreases in deaths involving fentanyl, according to a new KFF report. Nationally, the total ...

There’s a warning about a dangerous new synthetic opioid that’s said to be 10 times stronger than fentanyl. Several states, including California, have detected cychlorphine mixed with illegal street ...

Multiple states have raised the alarm in the past month about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid tied to several dozen recent overdoses that is far stronger than fentanyl. Cychlorphine is part of a new ...

MIKE, THE STATE JUST RELEASED NEW FIGURES TODAY. YES, MARIA AND MOST OF OUR CITIES AND TOWNS ARE STILL NOT SPENDING THE MONEY. FOUR YEARS AFTER IT STARTED FLOWING INTO MASSACHUSETTS. OF THE 108 ...

Massachusetts health officials have launched a system they say will track how the state and municipalities spend almost $1 billion in opioid settlement funds they expect to receive over nearly two ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that communities affected by the opioid crisis can apply for grants from a $365 million settlement fund. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that ...

HOW IT WILL WORK. THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT’S IN THESE DRUGS OUT HERE. THESE DRUGS IS REALLY HURTING OUR PEOPLE OUT HERE. VERNARD NELSON WAS THERE AS NEARLY A DOZEN PEOPLE OVERDOSED IN PENN NORTH WEDNESDAY ...