On Friday it will be one year since Recovery Works Northwest opened a detox center in Portland. According to its director of engagement, it’s the only measure 1 ...

Drug overdose is the leading cause of injury deaths in young adults in the United States, with fentanyl causing over 70,000 ...

An industrial chemical used in plastic products has been cropping up in illegal drugs from California to Maine.

As access to buprenorphine improves, so does our understanding of pediatric addiction. This has led to new ways to use ...

A pilot study showed that a small amount of ketamine can reduce or eliminate the withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting fentanyl. Drug overdose is the leading cause of injury deaths in young ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek promises to address oregon'sdetox beds for people who want to get clean from drugs or alcohol but ...

where his little body would be monitored for withdrawal symptoms. He was born without complications, but for more than half the time he was in the womb, fentanyl had flowed into his bloodstream.

After decades of devastating increases driven by fentanyl and other toxic street drugs, overdose deaths are dropping sharply ...

In just a few years, the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl has almost entirely replaced heroin as the dominant opioid in ...

Las Cruces Police hosted a town hall recently, which included information regarding effects of fentanyl and methamphetamine in Las Cruces.

"We've seen so many young people lose their lives needlessly because this resource isn't available," said David Burke, ...