Little-known nitazenes synthetic opioids evade standard drug tests while causing overdose deaths, requiring specialized detection and multiple naloxone doses.

Kentucky cities and counties are supposed to tell the state how they spend their opioid settlement funds, but compliance has ...

New research by KFF, a health policy organization, shows Nebraska has the lowest opioid overdose death rate in the ...

Bloomington woman files federal lawsuit against sheriff and jail medical workers alleging 'medical deliberate indifference.' ...

Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law 124 of the 436 bills sent to him by lawmakers in the spring legislative session.

Results from a small study suggest ketamine’s antidepressant effects may require activation of the brain’s opioid system.

At its regular 7 p.m. meeting Tuesday, Danville’s city council will consider participating in a proposed nationwide settlement agreement of opioid-related claims. Participation would allow the city to ...

With seven months of the year done, the number of overdose deaths in Grant County is running ahead of the same period in 2024. KC Sherwood, death investigator for the Grant County Coroner's Office, ...

To date, D'Apolito told 21 News, the township has received about $95,000 over the past few years since the first settlement was originally approved.

Opioids like morphine are widely used in medical practice due to their powerful pain-relieving effects. However, they carry ...

Missouri has started to see a decline in overdose-related deaths in the state, but there is still work to be done.