An analysis of state health data shows that opioid overdose hospitalizations have decreased by more than 20% in the last year, marking two consecutive years of declining emergency department visits in ...

Crutchfield is a professor of medical ethics, humanities, and law at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. Chmura is a second-year resident in J. Willis Hurst Internal ...

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have the potential to prevent relapse in opioid use disorder, according to a study by researchers at ...

For the first time on Wednesday, the DeSantis administration acknowledged that it used opioid settlement money to campaign against a recreational marijuana amendment on the 2024 ballot. Shevaun Harris ...

Today, the National Safety Council applauded the bipartisan reintroduction of legislation in the U.S. Congress to curb fatalities from opioid overdose in the workplace. The Workplace Overdose Reversal ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new synthetic opioid has now been linked to 16 deaths in East Tennessee, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center announced Thursday morning. Previously, the forensic ...

When people overdose on opioids, whether they wake up on their own or are revived by Narcan, many doctors assume they are fully recovered. This is a mistake because hypoxia (insufficient oxygen to the ...

Kitsap County officials reported this week that they spent close to $800,000 over the last two years on projects to combat the opioid crisis, funding data collection, community education programs, and ...

For two decades, the United States and Canada have struggled with a drug epidemic. From 2003 to 2022, annual overdose deaths in the United States rose from less than 26,000 to nearly 108,000—becoming ...

Cincinnati — A decade ago, the streets around Cincinnati, Ohio, became a front line for America's deadliest drug crisis. Tom Synan, police chief of nearby Newton, and head of Hamilton County's ...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — During 2025, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center identified a new synthetic opioid in three East Tennessee counties. While limited information is available on the new ...