Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is warning families about 7-OH, a potent opioid-like substance being sold in gas stations ...

OTC pain relievers were as effective as, or better than, prescription opioids for pain after wisdom tooth extraction, in both ...

Scientists have found traces of ancient opiates in the residue lining an Egyptian alabaster vase, indicating that opiate use ...

Los Angeles County jails pared back access to life-saving opioid addiction treatment this fall during one of the system’s ...

Hundreds of people are on a waitlist for opioid addiction treatment in Los Angeles County jails as the state presses the system to reduce overdoses and in-custody deaths.

We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.

Florida in 2023 prohibited the sale of kratom, a plant whose botanical name is “mitragyna speciosa,” to people under age 21.

Study finds adults on very-high opioid doses (>150 MME/wk) before abrupt discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) had >2x risk of suicide.

While inflation has hit most legal goods hard in recent years, prices of the illegal narcotic cocaine have remained unchanged ...

About a quarter of Nebraska’s reported overdose deaths from 2014 to 2020 did not have a drug specified, according to research ...

China will require licenses for export of 13 chemicals used to make the deadly drug, another indicator of thawing tensions ...