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Medicaid makes sense as an effective, efficient and ultimately life-saving resource for patients living with opioid-use disorder (OUD), yet in many states the program represents deadly […]

If you visit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Niswonger Children’s Hospital in Johnson City, you might see what I did this Spring — a third […]

By BRITTANY SPANOS Meek Mill spoke candidly about his battle with an opioid addiction while he was on probation during a press conference he held in […]

By Jan Hoffman BOSTON — To the medical students, the patient was a conundrum. According to his chart, he had residual pain from a leg injury […]

By Editorial Board America’s opioid crisis has shifted. As Congress and the White House have dawdled, the overdose death toll has continued its steady climb — […]

Despite increased attention to opioid abuse, prescriptions have remained relatively unchanged for many U.S. patients, research led by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota finds. The […]

  By Tom Smith  FLORENCE — Police officers often are the first to find individuals who have overdosed on heroin or opioids.  “That happens more frequently […]

  By Janet Currie and Molly Schnell The toll that the opioid epidemic has taken on the United States is undeniable. On average, 115 Americans die […]