The St. Joseph Health Department is alerting the community to a concerning increase in the local use of 7-hydroxymitragynine, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The City of Houston is cracking down on a highly addictive and deadly drug sweeping Houston. According to Mayor Sylvester Turner, the drug fentanyl or its derivative ...

Opioids are quite potent drugs that relieve pain and produce feelings of euphoria, and should only be taken for short periods of time for acute pain, such as after an injury or surgery.

According to the plea, a newly created category of centres, viz. substance use disorder treatment centre (Outpatient facility ...

A complaint filed by two Ohio counties in federal court in Cleveland on May 27 alleges five retail pharmacy chains facilitated the opioid crisis as distributors of the highly addictive drugs, ...

In a major advance in the field of neuropsychiatry, researchers in the Vollum Institute at Oregon Health & Science University have illuminated how cocaine and amphetamines disrupt the normal ...

A highly addictive cheap drug called kush, originating in Sierra Leone, is rapidly spreading in West Africa, according to a report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime ...

Opioid use during pregnancy—whether of highly addictive drugs like fentanyl or controlled opioids like buprenorphine—doubles the risk of preterm birth. A new Yale study reveals that inflammation may ...

The number of children in grades 7 to 12 using opioids in Ottawa roughly doubled from 2021 to 2023, according to recent data from Ottawa Public Health (OPH) and the Centre for Mental Health and ...