Cassidy Webb was 17 when she got her wisdom teeth removed. As is common after a wisdom tooth extraction, she was prescribed hydrocodone—the generic form of Vicodin—to help her manage the pain. But for ...

We need to increase funding and access to effective opioid prevention, treatment and recovery initiatives in New York.

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

As counties decide how to use the opioid settlement money, university researchers built a database so we can see how they’re ...

Every other state, including those receiving hundreds of millions less than Mississippi, has allocated at least $3 million to ...

Barbara Kingsolver won a Pulitzer Prize for her bestselling novel about Appalachia's drug crisis. She invested some of the proceeds into a home for women trying to beat substance use disorders.

Researchers hope that transparency around where the money is going will help counties use the funds more effectively.

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...

When my grandchild was born, I had no idea that my life as I knew it would change forever. My instincts told me there was something wrong, yet my limited understanding of opioid abuse made it ...

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Jackson Mayor John Horhn signaled the state’s local opioid settlement dollars ...

Canton City Council awarded $300,000 in opioid settlement funds for seven community programs related to addiction prevention ...