opioid addiction

A Narcan vending machine, which dispenses life-saving naloxone to treat opioid overdoses, was emptied approximately one day after being installed in Vine Grove, Kentucky.

First Lady Melania Trump is marking the second anniversary of her Be Best initiative to help children, families, key leaders, and stakeholders to help all parties be invested in helping American children overcome obstacles and succeed.

A doctor from Martinsville, Virginia, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for illegally prescribing opioids to his patients.

Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman ruled Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay the state of Oklahoma $572,102,028 for its role in exacerbating the opioid crisis in the state.

Diverting border security resources to address the “humanitarian need” of migrants is leading to record-high levels of illicit drug smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border, said James W. Carroll, director of the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy.

Drug Czar Jim Carroll told Breitbart News that “93 percent of heroin” in the country “comes from Mexico” ahead of National Takeback Day.

Eric Bolling told Breitbart News that he “hates being the face” of a series of town hall events examining  opioid abuse, but is “saving lives.”

During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump talked about opioid addiction and said his administration “is committed to using every tool at our disposal to combat the opioid epidemic – that includes getting tough on the drug dealers and pushers peddling this

The U.S. military has introduced acupuncture as a pain relief treatment for troops in an effort to fight opioid abuse, according to a report.

A team of medical researchers has developed artificial intelligence that can scan and identify signs of opioid abuse on Twitter, according to a report.

Attorneys for a county in East Texas announced Wednesday they filed a lawsuit in federal court against more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies for their alleged roles in the opioid painkiller epidemic gripping the state and the nation.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin discovered what they call a potentially powerful non-addictive painkiller that targets previously untapped receptors in the brain. Such a finding could offer a game-changing alternative for chronic pain sufferers dependent on dangerous prescription opioids.

President Donald Trump should declare a national emergency in response to the nearly 142 Americans killed each day by the opioid crisis gripping the United States, a bipartisan White House panel has found.

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price announced the “largest health care fraud takedown operation in American history” on Thursday in which hundreds of individuals nationwide were indicted for their alleged roles in bilking U.S. taxpayers out of $1.3 billion by filing false Medicare claims. One in four of these cases involved opioid-related crimes.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) called on Secretary of State Jeff Sessions to leave “grandma’s medicinal marijuana” alone and argued against reversing progress on the legalization of the drug during her speech at the Center for American Progress’s 2017 “Ideas Conference” Tuesday.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney says he believes states are better suited to address the opioid epidemic, on a local level, than applying a “federal, one-size-fits-all” approach to a drug addiction problem that has swept the nation.

Here is some promising news about the nation’s much-ignored drug disaster: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will head up a national task force to combat the deadly opioid epidemic.

President Donald Trump met on Wednesday with victims of opioid addiction and members of his committee who will address the growing crisis.