While the FDA has classified synthetic kratom as a public health threat and dozens of states have enacted regulations or bans ...

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

Some Mass. families who lost relatives to opioid overdoses object to the size of the payouts and paperwork requirements.

A new crisis has emerged among patients who truly suffer from debilitating pain: They cannot get the care that they need.

A bankruptcy court judge has approved the settlement of thousands of lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, maker of the powerful ...

Without opioid painkillers to dull the ache in his knees and other joints, Arnold Wilson wouldn’t be able to walk half a block. The 63-year-old former New York City nurse has crippling arthritis for ...

Scientists have known for decades that opioids relieve pain by binding to molecular switches in the brain called mu-opioid receptors. What they didn't know—until now—was exactly what happens next. A ...

Scientists have known for decades that opioids relieve pain by binding to molecular switches in the brain called mu-opioid (pronounced "mew-opioid") receptors. What they didn't know - until now - was ...

At 72, Dr. Daniel Alberto Carpman was hoping to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison for prescribing millions of Oxycodone pills to thousands of patients who resold the painkillers to drug ...

BECKLEY, WVA –A 57-year-old physician has pleaded guilty to federal charges tied to the illegal distribution of powerful opioid medications, marking another development in a sweeping investigation ...

A Bergen County doctor who is already serving a six-year federal prison sentence for illegally distributing opioids will never be allowed to practice medicine again in New Jersey, state authorities ...

Creditors of Purdue Pharma voted in favor of the opioid maker’s proposal to exit bankruptcy and pay billions to communities and individuals who say they were harmed by the company’s addictive ...