Once among the hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, overdose deaths are falling in Ohio, though challenges remain.

During 2025, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center identified a new synthetic opioid in three East Tennessee counties.

A pain management doctor and a clinical psychologist specializing in substance about give the facts about what to know about opioids to ensure safe use. Conducted by health technology company DrFirst, ...

How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to ...

With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new ...

Lifesaving or wasteful? Opinion is divided on the ways local communities are using opioid settlement funds. Survivors of the ...

The West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force office is based at Lake and Pulaski, what it considers ground zero for the city’s ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that is a non-opioid and carries less risks of addiction than opioids. Journavx works ...

AMA released its 2025 Report on Substance Use and Treatment, revealing a positive trend in recent fatal overdoses from ...

Cuyahoga County's relatively new withdrawal and recovery pod is possible because of opioid settlement dollars. But what else ...

Money raised by lawsuits against opioid manufacturers is being spent on fixing the damages done by drug abuse and overdoses, ...

For the first time in 25 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of painkiller. Suzetrigine, sold as Journavx, is administered twice daily in 50-milligram oral tablets to ...