opioid epidemic

Researchers say cannabis appears to treat both pain and insomnia—but urge caution about use of the drug.

So far there have been 92 fatal overdoses in the county this year.

Opiate overdoses claim more than 115 lives a day in the U.S.

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

"It won't be the Mexican government [paying for the wall]; it will be the Mexican cartels, and that's probably the better party to bill there."

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."

"This is not just an opioid use crisis of historic proportions...There is a more general drug misuse crisis."

South Carolina officials can't find any pharmaceutical companies to make the lethal drugs needed to execute one of its prisoners because they are scared of backlash. 

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.

"Extremely dangerous and addictive" opioids meant for cancer patients were prescribed to patients who didn't need them, according to the indictment.

The name comes from a word meaning "heroic."

Could legalizing recreational weed stop people from using opioids?

Adams once convinced Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana, to open syringe exchanges for drug users. That influence could help address the nationwide opioid epidemic.

Law enforcement officials identified two illicit synthetic opioids that are so strong they can be absorbed through the skin.

Among white users, prescription opioids seem to be a gateway drug to heroin.

China is flooding the U.S. with fentanyl—25 to 50 times stronger than heroin—and traffickers are using it to counterfeit painkillers.

The Opioid painkiller is costing the U.S. Health Care System an estimated $78.5 Billion Dollars with an increased 72 percent of Opioid-related hospitalizations.