Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now ...

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

The trust manages Georgia's share from a 2021 national settlement of several billion dollars from three pharmaceutical distributors. These funds are meant to combat and hopefully end the opioid crisis ...

Texas and 14 other states have secured a $7.4 billion settlement from the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, for their roles in creating the opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma was the ...

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.

Protesters in 2021, above. Pacific Press/LightRocket ... or individual victims of the opioid crisis. Those who do not wish to join the settlement are free to pursue lawsuits against the Sacklers ...

Purdue Pharma and the members of the Sackler family who own the company agreed in principle to pay a $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits over their alleged role in the opioid ...

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 ...

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