opioid epidemic

Buying opioids on the internet isn't just illegal: it's usually a scam.

Canada’s Public Health Agency estimated that around 4,000 people died from opioids last year.

Chelsea Clinton thanked the president.

"We put Melania and other people on this blue ribbon committee," the president said about efforts around the opioid epidemic.

"This fast-moving epidemic does not stay within state and county lines."

The president's proposed budget indicates that the White House will focus on addressing opioids as it plans to devote nearly $13 billion toward the epidemic.

The budget President Donald Trump is set to release on Monday is expected to slash the drug office’s funding.

“It’s not a ghetto drug,” Senator Martin Golden said of the opioid epidemic. “It’s happening to doctor’s kids.”

“It means nothing if it has no funding to push it forward,” Kennedy said.

"Fentanyl is not a choice. It’s a contamination crisis.”

An opioid at the heart of America's drug epidemic will be used for death row executions in Nevada and Nebraska if the never-before-tried combination of drugs is approved.

Doctors are much more likely to prescribe opioid medication to white patients than their black and Latino counterparts.

The human race has grappled with addiction for a very long time.

The photo "displays exactly what heroin addiction is," she says.

These six new enforcement teams will be located in states across the U.S.

The yellow lab spent 12 hours in the emergency room.

The name comes from a word meaning "heroic."