A federal court has signed off on a $700 million class-action settlement that will see drug manufacturers and distributors ...

Opioid victims are not getting a "fair shake" in potential $7.4 billion settlement, a claimant in the Purdue Pharmacy ...

Drug manufacturers and distributors were accused of misrepresenting prescription opioids, improperly handling some orders, or filling scripts for dubious medical purposes. Per the settlement, they ...

Louisville leaders want to spend $700k on a court diversion program for people charged with unlawful camping. Why advocates ...

The analysis of health insurance claims data from almost 3 million U.S. patients investigated prescribed stimulants’ impact on prescription opioid use over 10 years, looking for origins of the ...

A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation ... involve creating fun activities like music classes, theatrical shows, and even ice-skating.

The μ-opioid receptors are a class of receptors known to bind buprenorphine and other opioids. Thus, its identification as one of the mediators was unsurprising, says Abrahams. TLR4 is known to ...

Buprenorphine also belongs to the same class of drugs as the painkillers and illicit opioids that have led to so much anguish in the first place, most likely causing many physicians to avoid it ...

a community organizer with VOCAL-KY who is in recovery from opioid use disorder, worry about how such a program would work for unhoused people. "If you're unhoused, showing up for a class or ...

The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications ... of combining the two classes of drugs, which ...