The state’s Medical Board has issued clear, evidence-based guidelines that recommend starting with non-opioid medications for ...

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is warning families about 7-OH, a potent opioid-like substance being sold in gas stations ...

Tucked between news of budget meetings and beauty pageant winners published in The Dickenson Star’s 2017 “Year in Review” is a grim statistic: Dickenson County was first in the state and sixth in the ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally requested for a popular kratom derivative to be classified as a controlled substance Tuesday. The Trump administration’s top health ...

The group of researchers were the first to take snapshots of the moment naloxone reverses an opioid overdose in the brain.

Major League Baseball will begin testing players for opioids and remove marijuana from its list of "drugs of abuse," as part of its updated drug program, the league and the players union said Thursday ...

We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger ...

Last year, 66 people died from what the Middlesex London Health Unit calls opioid poisoning from substances such as fentanyl. The number of fatalities hit a peak in 2021 when 135 people died.

OTC pain relievers were as effective as, or better than, prescription opioids for pain after wisdom tooth extraction, in both ...