The White House launched a national data dashboard that for the first time tracks the rate of nonfatal opioid overdoses across the country, which health experts say will help accurately target ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...

For decades, the U.S. struggled to create a national system for tracking opioid overdoses. Critics including Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) say the lack of accurate, real-time data has made it harder for ...

Milwaukee County officials unveiled a new digital dashboard Tuesday to monitor opioid overdoses and direct resources to areas most in need. The initiative was announced at the King Community Center in ...

Despite the rising tide of opioid overdoses across the United States, the VA isn’t doing enough to identify and monitor signs of opioid addiction in U.S. service members as they transition out of the ...

Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, poses a unique problem. It's not an opioid, so even when it's mixed with fentanyl, drugs designed to reverse an opioid overdose may not work. Narcan or naloxone, ...

Overall, there were 52, 586 opioid-naive Medicare beneficiaries discharged to SNFs after hip fracture hospitalizations with a mean age of 85.7 years and a mean SNF length of stay being 47.9 days.

More than $50 billion in settlement funds is being delivered to thousands of state and local governments from companies accused of flooding their communities with opioid painkillers that have left ...

Tarrant County hasn't spent most of the $5.6 million it has been allocated as part of the opioid lawsuit settlements. The distributors and manufacturers were accused of enabling the opioid crisis in ...

Sitting among the warehouses of Dulles, Virginia, is one of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s forensic labs. It’s one of eight across the country where scientists analyze illegal drugs and try ...