University of Georgia got a $1.2 million grant from the 2021 national opioid settlement to help with resources in rural ...

Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

In their 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article on opioids, Dr. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who served as ...

But he died in February 2021, at age 51, after ingesting a drug ... the fast-acting drug that has fueled the national opioid crisis. Many also had a history of incarceration.

The trust manages Georgia's share from a 2021 national settlement of several ... These funds are meant to combat and hopefully end the opioid crisis that has hurt and killed many people.

The FDA has approved Journavx, a pain medication, offering a safer alternative to opioids. Learn about its benefits and side effects.

As determined by the Legislature in 2021 through the Kansas Fights Addiction Act ... go very far to find somebody that’s been affected by this disease and people that are on the forefront,” he said.

FROM 2021 TO 2023, OVERDOSES AMONG BLACK PEOPLE ... stations are now equipped with naloxone boxes to help combat the opioid crisis.That's thanks to funding from Vital Strategies and efforts ...

U.S. job openings fell in December, a sign that the labor market is cooling but still healthy.

In 2021, over 1.1 million seniors were diagnosed ... among adults aged 55 and older between 2022 and 2023. The opioid crisis does not discriminate by age, and seniors are increasingly at risk ...