A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most—nearly seven ...

Workers in the skilled trades make up a large share of overdoses fatalities, at a time when their labour is needed more than ...

In August, Michael Fairchild, an Ottawa-area welder who worked on projects across Canada over his 30-year career, died of a ...

Nitazene was first developed in the 1950s as an analgesic, but was never approved for medical use. Instead, it was “limited ...

Dr. Alex Summers, the top doctor with the Middlesex-London health unit, detailed at a Wednesday press conference the agency’s ...

America’s overdose crisis isn’t the simple story we’ve been told for years. A new investigation reveals how two key graphs — ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane gave reasoning Tuesday for approving the plan, which requires members of the Sackler family ...

A class of synthetic drugs called nitazines have been around since the 1950s — but are quickly gaining a foothold in street drugs.

The surge of deaths in Mississippi from opioid overdoses that began in the late 1990s continues today driven by synthetic ...

For patients recovering from opioid use disorder, particularly from drugs like fentanyl or heroin, the days immediately following a hospital stay are among the most dangerous. A new multi-state study ...