Attorney General Jeff Sessions chose Maine as one of his stops to promote the newly-announced operation Synthetic Opioid Surge or S.O.S., because the state is among 10 areas of the country where there ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (WALB) - Synthetic opioids disguised as gummies and candies pose deadly risks to children across Georgia, according to Georgia’s Attorney General. 7-OH is an opioid-like substance found ...

During my tenure as CDC Director, I witnessed firsthand how quickly emerging substances can overwhelm our public health infrastructure. Today, I’m compelled to warn about a new threat hiding in plain ...

Amid the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States, fentanyl has consistently been one of the deadliest drugs, causing the deaths of some half-million Americans. The crisis is so acute that fentanyl ...

Deaths caused by a synthetic opioid 500 times stronger than heroin have likely been underestimated by up to a third, researchers suggest. Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that are extremely ...

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The point of sale? Not back alleys or the dark web, but your neighborhood gas station. In a recent public health alert, FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary warned that gas station heroin poses a ...

WASHINGTON - Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic toll of the opioid addiction and overdose crisis on the United ...

On May 26 this year, Gagan Brar, 28, and his 20-year-old girlfriend Kamaldeep Kaur were found unconscious in their Southall home. It was bank holiday Monday afternoon, when their worried flatmate ...

Culture is vital for recovery. That’s a lesson Juli Skinner, a citizen of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, learned during her ...