New data from the Florida Department of Health and FDLE shows seniors in the Tampa Bay region are dying at higher rates from ...

But the potent opioid also has a decades long history and is extensively ... It was introduced in the 1960s as an intravenous anesthetic, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. — For ...

Authorities arrested a 70-year-old Carrollton man last week after uncovering an illegal opioid distribution operation from ...

The rise of counterfeit fentanyl-laced pharmaceuticals threatens public health. Innovative molecular analytical methods are ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ “Journavx” on Thursday, greenlighting the non-opioid ...

Tris Pharma has pointed to a phase 3 win for its pain relief drug as demonstrating the candidate’s potential to help resolve the opioid crisis. The company tested cebranopadol, a dual nociceptin ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit late last week against Walgreens alleging the company and its subsidiaries unlawfully dispensed and sought reimbursement for “millions” of ...

Attempting to reduce fatal opioid overdoses and encourage more people to seek treatment, fire department paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering the medication buprenorphine in the ...

In eastern Kentucky, a region that is plagued by poverty and is at the heart of the country’s opioid epidemic, the burden of addressing this treatment gap has mainly been taken up by addiction ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) hit drugstore chain Walgreens with a lawsuit this week for filling “unlawful” opioid prescriptions that had no “legitimate” medical purpose for over a decade.

(AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade and more without a legitimate purpose, including for dangerous amounts of opioids, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Friday accusing Walgreens of filling millions of unlawful opioid prescriptions. The civil suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...