What Mark Conway says is groundbreaking and life-saving, the mayor’s office says is irresponsible and simplistic.

At their bimonthly meeting Monday, Baltimore City Council members introduced legislation designed to improve health care for children and help emergency personnel respond to the opioid crisis. Child ...

School nurses, teachers or other people trained and qualified would be authorized to administer the nasal spray to a student or staff member experiencing symptoms of an opioid overdose.

In 2023, more than 84,000 people in the U.S. died from overdosing on opioids—everything from prescription painkillers to ...

Relapse is common when someone is trying to quit, regardless of whether they're giving up opioids or alcohol or cigarettes.

Reversing opioid overdoses in rats using a drug that does not enter the brain prevents the sudden and severe withdrawal symptoms associated with therapeutics that target the central nervous system.

Evans is the former chief operator of the DEA leading initiatives across 240 domestic offices and 93 foreign offices.

Security will play a more central role in Canada's upcoming elections. Whoever wins should learn from Justin Trudeau's mixed ...

From unexpected gender disparities to alarming teen statistics, discover essential facts about opioid medications that every ...

Doctors are trying new ways to treat opioid addiction- with mixed results. A study by UC San Francisco tried microdosing ...

In 2021, more than 107,000 Americans died from overdoses – the most ever recorded – and nearly seven out of 10 deaths involved fentanyl or similar synthetic opioids. In 2022, ...

Only a tiny percentage of people addicted to alcohol or drugs take medication for it. Why not? It's complicated, but the ...