Opioid

Troy Nokes, 35, of Blackwood, New Jersey, was charged in connection with his 12-year-old nephew's death.

Police in Oregon said the baby boy had been found virtually unresponsive and was suffering from severe dehydration, malnourishment and severe diaper rash.

Nearly every state and local government is set to receive a portion of the nationwide settlement plan's funds.

Cities and counties in Idaho joined the state for the nationwide opioid settlement and brought the previous state settlement of $65 million up to $119 million.

"It's the drug supply that's killing people, not their addictions," Dr. Sheila Vakharia told Newsweek. "Addiction doesn't have to result in death. It's when you're using a toxic drug supply that this death is more likely."

There were more than 2,060 overdoses in New York City during 2020. The CDC estimated the U.S. had more than 93,000 overdoses last year, up 30 percent from 2019.

Over 3,300 lawsuits have been filed across the U.S. over an opioid epidemic that led to nearly 500,000 overdose deaths between 1999 and 2019.

More than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. have been connected to opioid prescription drugs and illegal opioids since 2000.

The West Virginia city of Huntington and surrounding Cabell County sued the nation's three largest opioid distributors after more than 700 people died over five years in a county with a population of less than 100,000.

"We are seeing a worrying increase in harmful exposures to gabapentin and baclofen in U.S. adults over recent years," an expert told Newsweek.

In an appearance on CNN, the Republican congressman stressed that marijuana legalization has a generational divide, rather than a partisan one.

People largely do not become addicted to opioids after visits to the emergency room for car crashes, falls and other types of acute injuries that might warrant prescription painkillers, a new study shows.

Franklin County in Ohio is planning on offering first-of-its kind panic buttons early next year to ease overdose deaths and offer help for sex workers who may encounter drug overdoses or violence.

At least two dozen universities received donations from the Sacklers over the last five years, totaling more than $60 million.

Beijing's narcotics vice-commissioner Liu Yuejin told reporters that China has toughened its laws and now strictly regulates fentanyl as a controlled substance.

"This opioid crisis, this public health crisis we're in, it is a manmade crisis," an attorney for the state said on Tuesday.

"This study is incredibly important, as it shows us that there are drugs available to treat the opioid crisis," an expert told Newsweek.

The senator says she wants "an America where when people like the Sacklers destroy millions of lives to make money, they don't get museum wings named after them, they go to jail."

The research comes amid a "psychedelic renaissance," in which scientists have investigated whether psychoactive drugs such as MDMA and LSD could be used to treat mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and PTSD.

The Sackler family's Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, has settled a case brought by Oklahoma for $270 million but is facing 1,600 lawsuits and criticism from public figures like Sanders.

We can begin to curb both of them if we give inmates the medical care and support programs that they need.

New Jersey police charge mother after she was found unconscious on top of unresponsive 13-month-old son at their home.

The researchers were surprised how effective tactics like taking doctors for dinner were when it came to covertly influencing the drugs they prescribed.

Opioid deaths have risen to 1 in 96, a figure now higher than the 1 in 103 probability of dying in a car crash.

The father was charged with first-degree wanton endangerment, a Class D felony.

The Justice Department–funded program will treat about 100 people over three years.

I have engaged in more intimate conversations with addicts than I have with many close friends.

Researchers developed an experimental painkiller option that's as powerful than morphine at a dose that's 100 times smaller.

Growing evidence suggests ketamine could be used to ease treatment-resistant depression. And researchers at Stanford University were surprised to find out why that could be.

Justin Stevens, 24, threatened to kill his own grandmother if she didn't pay up.