opioids

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...

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.

For the eighth time, an inmate has used Narcan to save another’s life, NBC 7’s Jackie Crea reports.

The inmate overdosed last Thursday and was given two doses of the medication by a fellow inmate, which was accessible through a Naloxone box within the detention facility’s housing unit, the sheriff’s department 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.

The deadly opioid epidemic has taken a major toll here in San Diego County. The San Diego County Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force and Meth Strike Force released their latest annual report card that shows 2021 was the deadliest year for drug overdose deaths.

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...

A federal jury convicted a 75-year-old California physician of prescribed an opioids and other powerful drugs to a patient who didn’t need them and who eventually died of an overdose.

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

San Diego County supervisors are considering how to battle the region’s opioid crisis by using funds received from lawsuits against drug manufacturers. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford explains.

San Diego County leaders will consider a new plan to tackle the region’s opioid crisis. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford shares more on the $100 million plan.

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.

California moved a step closer Wednesday to creating sites where people could legally use drugs under supervision designed to save them from dying if they overdose, over the objections of opponents who said the state would be enabling dangerous and illegal activity.

A Glendale mother was arrested Thursday for suspicion of child endangerment and possession of controlled substances after her months-old baby boy had to be hospitalized twice and given Narcan to offset opioid ingestion.

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