opioid crisis

A new study has found that fentanyl deaths are spiking in children under 5, and it’s already happened in South Florida.

A growing number of young children are dying from opioid involved overdoses. NBC 6’s Laura Rodriguez reports

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state’s effort to fight the opioid crisis will expand to five more counties.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that the state’s effort to fight the opioid crisis will expand to five more counties.

The Pembroke Park Police Department is getting trained on giving Narcan to overdose calls by nonprofit USA Opioid Crisis Mortality Reduction.

Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the impact of the prescriptions its pharmacies filled for powerful prescription opioid painkillers. The deal would still need to be approved by 43 states to take effect. It follows a similar announcement from pharmacy chains CVS Health and Walgreen Co. They each said they would pay about $5...

CVS Health and Walgreen Co. announced agreements in principle Wednesday to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids, and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal.

San Diego County could soon have a new weapon in its arsenal to help fight its growing problem with opioid addiction.

The Centers for Disease Control revealed Wednesday that the U.S. set a grim record in 2021 with 107,000 overdose deaths.

The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress

State attorneys in Florida say pharmacy chain Walgreens ignored red flags that signaled the pharmacies were contributing to the opioid crisis. Walgreens stores in the Tampa area had abnormally high numbers of opioid prescriptions and pills distributed, prosecutors say. Walgreens attorneys say the company was misled by pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma about the potency of the drugs.

There often is a serious downside for people taking medications that have a long track record of helping treat opioid addiction: discrimination

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions

U.S. government officials said synthetic opioids are akin to “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”

Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors

A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis

As the pandemic ravaged the country, deaths from drug overdoses surged by nearly 30%, surpassing 100,000 dead for the first time in American history.

A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.