Tag: opioid crisis

A new study that has been released by the American Action Forum suggests that toughening regulation for prescription opioids in 2010 may have led...

An Alaskan Native tribe in the Juneau area has formed a committee to address rising concerns over substance abuse. The Central Council of Tlingit and...

  On Friday, April 6, nine overdoses occurred in four different Maine counties, prompting local authorities to issue a warning that local heroin supplies may...

United States Border Patrol agents in Texas seized 41 pounds of heroin from a tractor-trailer trying to carry it in a shipment of tomatoes...

The United States Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, MD, has urged Americans to carry naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication, in order to protect themselves...

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a mandatory recall of kratom products from a Las Vegas company amid...

A new research report released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has revealed that there was an increase of over 1000%...

Healthcare professionals at a rehabilitation center in Memphis, Tennessee are exploring the use of alternative methods of pain management that may be able to...

  The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a report last week that revealed a 21% increase in the number of overdose deaths...

The American Dental Association (ADA) has announced a new opioid prescription policy that features limits and education about drugs. Even while prescriptions declined as...