A new class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which could be more potent than fentanyl, is being found around the world, including in the United States. Claire Zagorski, a harm reduction ...

Kentucky’s attorney general is suing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts over its role in “worsening” the state’s opioid crisis. In the complaint filed in state court ...

(AP) — Kentucky’s attorney general has sued Express Scripts, claiming the big pharmacy benefit manager was at the center of an opioid dispensing chain that fueled a deadly addiction crisis still ...

The team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia that tracks suspected child abuse is increasingly investigating a devastating ripple effect of the region’s opioid crisis: deaths and poisonings in ...

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But people taking the medication may also be at a lower risk of opioid overdose. Prescriptions for the drug were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with both diabetes and opioid use ...

A wildly popular diabetes and weight-loss drug may also protect people from overdosing on opioids. That’s the implication of a new study that examined health records of people with type 2 ...

In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond weight loss, a new study finds the medications might also lower people's risk of opioid overdose. People with Type 2 ...

Overdose deaths have dipped once before this century, by about 3% in 2018. The slight fall led to optimism that the opioid crisis had reached its peak, but numbers were already rising in 2019 and then ...

The settlement requires the more than 40 states that are participating to use the funds toward stemming overdoses and other repercussions of widespread opioid use. All other states except for ...