The Latest Breaking News from Opioids

US sanctions, indicts Chinese firms, executives said to supply chemicals used to produce highly addictive opioids.

The synthetic opioid fentanyl is well known for the many lives it has claimed – mainly in the US, but elsewhere too. Now, a less well-known class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes is starting to crop up in overdose cases, on both sides of the Atlantic.

New research found cocaine or methamphetamine paired with fentanyl was responsible for one-third of overdose deaths

A new study finds a 50-fold growth in deaths from combined use of stimulants and opioids. The toxic and contaminated drug supply is to blame.

New data shows that the number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. continued to fall through the late 2010s even as the nation's overdose crisis deepened

The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing or liability, the company said, adding that it would “continue to vigorously defend against any other claims and lawsuits relating to opioids.”

Our political leaders envision a future in which high-tech implants snitch about our use of painkillers.

It kills tens of thousands of Americans every year, but the toll from fentanyl and other lab-made opioids could be about to get much worse. Gavin Haynes explains why a global heroin shortage could spark a US-style drugs crisis on British shores

Thursday marked International Overdose Awareness Day. The Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy says more than 2,100 Kentuckians died last year because of an overdose – a five percent decrease from the year prior. 90 percent of those deaths were from opioids.

The West Side heroin/opioid taskforce is confronting the growing overdose crisis among the city’s Black population

The six-part miniseries vividly portrays Purdue Pharma’s reckless marketing of OxyContin. But it dismisses the caveat: that there are legitimate medical uses for this drug and other prescription opioids.