Nearly 22,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized at US borders during the 2024 fiscal year, according to data from the US Customs ...

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, columnist Alden Loury ...

Teen drug use is on the rise with opioids gaining popularity especially among girls ages 12 to 17, according to an alarming new study.

These medications are life and death for someone coming out of custody and in that state,” said Mary Taylor, a clinical ...

To date Mesa received $4.5 million in One Arizona settlement funds. The city will give $1 million to nonprofits working to ...

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually ...

Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign included a scene that appeared to blame methadone — a prescription medication used to ...

In 2023, more than 84,000 people in the U.S. died from overdosing on opioids—everything from prescription painkillers to fentanyl to heroin.

The program operates with participants being financially rewarded for actions that support recovery such as remembering to ...

For many people, opioid addiction begins with prescribed pain pills, before they increase their consumption and eventually turn to illicit drugs such as heroin and fentanyl, an extremely powerful ...