I was heartened to read recently that Kentucky has surpassed the $1 billion mark in total opioid settlement funds secured to ...

Emergency room clinicians are less likely to refer Black opioid overdose patients for outpatient treatment compared with ...

Across our Commonwealth, the opioid crisis has wrought devastation on individuals, families and communities.

The session emphasized different strategies to initiate buprenorphine, naltrexone, acamprosate, gabapentin, and phenobarbital ...

Indiana residents have been arrested and charged in what the FBI and U.S. Justice Department are calling the “largest ...

A new study found that almost all plans in 40 states and Washington, DC covered at least one form of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, although certain restrictions and quantity limits may ...

The Murray-Calloway County Hospital Board of Trustees heard a variety of reports at its monthly board meeting this week, including how the Hospital Rate Improvement Plan (HRIP) has ...

Opioid settlement explainer: A look at legal proceedings across the nation 11 TV Hill Opioids: Lawsuits to training, how the opioid battle is being waged Get WBAL-TV 11 News on the go Share ...

By Priscilla Tenorio Getty Images To know how opioids affect communities all around us, we must first know what opioids are and how we are affected by them even in ways we do not realize. According ...

When one takes an opioid, the chemical compounds found in the drug act as an agonist to neurotransmitters in the brain, mimicking the pleasurable feelings of a dopamine rush. Opioids also inhibit ...

In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers.