Rep. Susan Wild (Pa.), the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, was absent from the panel’s meeting last week after ...

A 46-year-old man, Mohhamad Sadique Hanif Sayyad, was arrested in Mumbai's Powai area with over 13 kilograms of charas worth ...

In a new study, opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains.

The largest-ever prescription drug bust in U.S. history has been taken against opioid distributors targeting Houston. The ...

Shaped by his own addiction, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing ideologically flexible approaches to the opioid epidemic.

The narcotic farm promised a more humane approach to drug treatment, but the reality was more complicated, Oklahoma State ...

Medetomidine, a powerful animal tranquilizer is making its way into the drug opioid crisis. Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative not approved for human consumption but there are reports of outbreaks ...

Opioids have been a major problem in the U.S. since the late 1990s, with the deadliest stretch earlier this decade reaching ...

Australia's use of prescription opioid analgesics, such as oxycodone, morphine, or tramadol, dropped by 21% between 2015 and ...

Drug companies have paid billions to settle allegations they contributed to the opioid epidemic based on a legal theory that ...

At a popular meeting spot for substance abusers near central Helsinki, even the addicts warn that Finland has a spiralling ...

People struggling with their body weight experienced joy when new, more effective prescription drug options became the rage ...