By suing CVS and Walgreens, the DOJ sends a chilling message to every pharmacy in America: If you fill opioid prescriptions, ...

Approximately 43% of patients aged 65 years or older with rheumatic disease filled at least one opioid prescription in 2021, ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several ...

Insurance companies want to dodge litigation costs acquired by Publix and other pharmacies over claims they contributed to opioid-related deaths.

Purdue Pharma recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin.

If a parent has persistent opioid prescriptions, their adolescent or young adult offspring has more than double the risk of persistent opioid use, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine ...

Having a marijuana dispensary in your town will likely cut down on prescription opioid use, according to several studies published this year. The researchers designed their large data studies to help ...

Medication use for opioid use disorder has increased but remains low, and methadone and buprenorphine are linked to reduced risk for opioid overdose, a new study shows.

Dr. Craig Spiegel pleaded guilty to three federal charges over the illegal distribution scheme which started as early as 2014 ...

A federally funded study published by the American Medical Association (AMA) is adding more evidence that marijuana can serve ...

West Virginia sued United HealthGroup on Monday in federal court, alleging that the company’s pharmacy benefit manager Optum ...

To find out, The Tennessean went deep into communities most affected by the epidemic. We traveled through East Tennessee’s ...