Health professionals around Evansville are exploring neuroscience approaches to combat opioid addictions. Youth First, the city of Evansville and the Forefront Therapy Nonprofit put on the first ...

America’s seniors have shouldered a devastating share of the opioid epidemic — a crisis that has ravaged communities, drained public resources, and taken far too many lives.

EXCLUSIVE: In the years since 2017 when the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency, more than half a million ...

Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few ...

Billions in settlement dollars are helping EMS agencies modernize equipment, strengthen staffing and expand overdose response ...

The Iowa Attorney General's Office has launched an Opioid Crisis Grant application site to support communities in tackling the opioid crisis. Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that over $365 ...

House and Senate bills would require local governments to spend opioid settlement money on strategies that address addiction ...

It's clear to me, as a public health doctor and journalist, that there have been fewer news stories on the opioid epidemic in recent months, in print, online, and on the radio and TV. While I don't ...

With all the news about the opioid epidemic, there's an unexpected group in trouble: older people. In fact, an analysis of government data shows more than 500,000 Medicare recipients received high ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird expects around $20 million to be available for distribution through June 30, 2030.

Municipalities in Maine spent more than $3 million in opioid settlement funds last year but that's only a fraction of the ...

In January 2017, the CDC reported more than 64,000 annual deaths related to drug overdose — a 21 percent increase from 2016 alone.1 To put this statistic into perspective, the number of drug overdose ...