Police say unused prescription medications sitting in medicine cabinets can lead to addiction and overdoses, making drug take ...

Over the past three weeks, KTEN's special series called Line of Defense has taken you inside Texoma's fight against drugs — ...

Researchers from New York once found that nearly 98 percent of all accidental overdose deaths were caused by opiates, cocaine, and alcohol. Nearly 60 percent of those were attributed to two of those ...

Researchers at Wayne State University will work with Michigan agencies and education partners to improve access to ...

As an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, I’ve spent more than 20 years treating patients of all ages. My responsibility extends beyond the walls of my office, involving far more than extracting teeth or ...

America’s opioid epidemic has been a prolonged public health crisis, resulting in countless overdose deaths and billions in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Since unwanted or expired medication all too often becomes a gateway to addiction, special drug take back events are held twice a year to stop the flow of drugs in the ...

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, and it addresses a crucial public safety and public health issue. According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 9.9 million ...

We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.

What’s driving the permanent crisis of drug addiction? To express the ambient feeling that “things are getting worse,” there exists, of course, a meme. It plots iterations of a chart, and on its ...