opioids

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction.

Exclusive new photos show paramedics rush to the parking lot of the Shops at Riverside, racing to revive the five workers who overdosed on fentanyl. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A New York City doctor who prosecutors said traded oxycodone and other pain relief meds for sex acts, cocaine and cash payments was sentenced to spend more than 12 years in prison on Wednesday. Howard Adelglass operated a pain management clinic in midtown Manhattan, and brought on 37-year-old Marcello Sansone to be the office manager for the clinic in Oct….

The study’s sobering findings underscore the extent of the opioid epidemic’s impact on children, according to its lead author.

Access has improved across the U.S. to a rescue drug that reverses opioid overdoses, but advocates say naloxone — commonly known by its brand name Narcan — still isn’t getting to everyone who needs it. A small group of volunteers run an organization that appears to be the largest distributor of naloxone in Albany, Georgia. But many communities lack similar...

A New York State Trooper had to be hospitalized after getting exposed to opioids while responding to a driver overdosing while on a Long Island highway, according to police.

An art teacher at a New Jersey middle school has been arrested after he overdosed on fentanyl in front of students mid-class, police said.

Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year. That’s according to final figures released Thursday.

CVS and Walgreens have agreed to a combined $10.7 billion to settle allegations they failed to adequately oversee opioid prescriptions, thus contributing to America’s addiction crisis.

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...

Among the changes: The CDC no longer suggests trying to limit opioid treatment for acute pain to three days.

A federal judge in Cleveland has awarded $650 million in damages to two Ohio counties that sued pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart saying their opioid distribution policies created a public nuisance.

“I was on top of the world and I ruined it,” the 32-year-old star said in a new interview.

A New Jersey doctor who authorities said described himself as “Candy Man” and “El Chapo of Opioids” was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for prescribing opioids without a legitimate medical purpose.

A jury on Wednesday acquitted an Ohio doctor in the deaths of multiple hospital patients

The changes aim to foster individualized patient care and offer more short-term, acute pain treatment options.

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

Thousands of towns across the United States that were wracked by the opioid crisis are on the precipice of receiving billions of dollars in the second-biggest legal settlement in U.S. history

A bellwether trial is set to start Monday in federal court in Cleveland to determine whether retail pharmacy chains are liable for costs related to the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties

A trial is now underway for a potential opioid vaccine — meant to protect against a deadly opioid overdose.