In its first few weeks, 2023 has told two decidedly different tales about an ongoing public health crisis in Wayne County. The good news: Wayne has begun to receive the first payments out of what will ...

In the latest chapter of a complex legal battle over who is responsible for the nation’s opioid crisis, Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, has arrived at a possible settlement with more ...

“We’ve seen an increase in opioid overdoses and the number of deaths in our areas. We’re back at the 2017 epidemic levels in New Hampshire,” says Bobbie Bagley director of Nashua’s Division of Public ...

Alyssa Boiman, a peer navigator for the Hamilton County Quick Response Team, will be at the Mount Washington Drug Take Back event to familiarize neighbors with the team's role in helping people who ...

Opioid overdoses have been one of the most urgent healthcare emergencies in the United States for over two decades. We have moved from overprescribing pharmaceutical opioids such as OxyContin to users ...

The Gaston Controlled Substances Coalition is holding a program that will allow the public to hear from frontline workers about the effects of the opiate epidemic in Gaston County. Coalition ...

Lawmakers in both parties are looking to provide front-line federal personnel extra layers of protections against fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances, as an influx of the synthetic opioid ...

The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history. Death rates now rival those of AIDS during the 1990s, and with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In our October episode, host Alander Rocha sits down with Grace Walton, news contributor and UGA freshman, to discuss ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Avi Israel founded Save the Michaels of the World after his son Michael died by suicide after he was unable to receive treatment for addiction to opioids. "Michael, encountered ...

The connection between opioid use and mental health is not just a matter of statistics. It is a reality for countless families where the opioid crisis and mental health struggles collide with ...