San Francisco's new mayor is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who's vowed to tackle the scourge of drugs and homelessness.

The federal government has long sought to prevent the horrors of drug addiction by interdicting the supply of dangerous ...

The first target for Canada’s fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau will be attacking the illegal supply of the highly addictive ...

The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay launched a free week-long program that medically assists overdose patients while they detox ...

The opioid epidemic costs the U.S. over $1.5 trillion annually, overloading hospitals, public health systems, and law ...

Community collaboration, harm reduction models and policy changes can ease the burden on EMS workers and improve patient ...

With prescription opioid overdoses plummeting and no more pharma companies to sue, America's drug warriors are running out of ...

In March 2023, Norcross and a bipartisan group in Congress introduced the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access bill, which ...

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

A new piece of Texas legislation, introduced by a Republican state representative, could save countless Texans’ lives.

A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined the effects of a January 2019 Medicare opioid safety policy aimed at reducing high-risk opioid prescribing and related harms among ...

U.S. Senators propose the Alternatives to PAIN Act to increase access to non-opioid pain treatments for seniors.