He was a college-educated opioid dealer who ... more than 90,000 highly addictive prescription pain pills on the streets — a crime similar to what he was convicted of almost a decade earlier.

A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of a 19-year-old who bought what appeared to be prescription oxycodone pills that actually contained fentanyl. A huge opioid settlement ...

“We had a massive opioid problem that needed to be rectified,” said Antonio Ciaccia, president of 3 Axis Advisors, a consulting firm that analyzes prescription drug pricing. “But the federal ...

is the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Data released as part of opioid lawsuits show Native American towns like Tahlequah were swamped with prescription opioids starting in the late 1990s.

Recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder have trust in working with peer support specialists who recovered from ...

Prescription opioid pills helped get many addicted to opioids ... others went to prison after patients died from overdoses. Others were convicted of writing prescriptions without a legitimate medical ...

Sienna Vaughn, a 16-year-old high school junior in Texas, died after taking a pill she got from a friend that she thought was ...

Hy-Vee pharmacies will limit opioid prescriptions for treatment of acute pain to seven days starting Thursday, according to a news release. Hy-Vee Grocery Stores said â â â â â ...

Deaths from all opioid-related overdoses, including prescription, synthetic opioids and heroin, substantially increased from fewer than 400 in 2019 to more than 600 in 2021, annual data from the ...