When Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services announced its plan to divvy up millions in opioid settlement money, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The years of life lost due to opioid toxicity increased threefold from 2011 to 2021. The proportion of deaths by ...

The authors highlight the diversity of multiagency electronic data-sharing approaches and present a case study addressing the opioid crisis Efforts to share data to enhance health care planning, ...

Health officials say the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the crisis. A record number of drug overdose deaths were recorded in North Carolina in 2021, according to new data from the state Department of ...

From 2023 to 2025, Tennessee’s 95 counties received $86.8M in opioid abatement funds. The state has paused public reporting ...

Congressman David Schweikert introduced a bill that would provide a prize for the successful development of a vaccine "to prevent, treat, or mitigate opioid, cocaine, methamphetamine, or alcohol use ...

From 1999 to 2020, opioid overdose deaths claimed the lives of over half a million Americans, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with opioid-involved deaths ...

University of Georgia is looking to do its part in a major national fight. The school's college of pharmacy received a grant of about $1.2 million from the Georgia Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust. This ...

Editor’s Note: As we continue to observe National Recovery Month, Homeland Security Today contributor Robert Patterson – former Acting Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – ...

Perinatal mothers enrolled in Michigan Medicaid between 2012 and 2021 who had opioid use disorder were more likely to have a ...