Many people might be aware of an ongoing opioid epidemic, with thousands of people dying every year from overdoses. But many ...

As a former public health official, clinician and researcher, I've been engaged in efforts to control the opioid addiction epidemic for the past 15 years.

An exclusive Washington Post analysis of county-level data shows the predominant cause of opioid overdose deaths shifted between pills, heroin and fentanyl as the epidemic got worse.

Opioid epidemic: Fight addiction and chronic pain together to save lives Tens of thousands of Americans are dying from opioid overdoses, but others need them to treat chronic pain.

A year ago, the U.S. was in the grips of an epidemic -- the scourge of opioid addiction, with more than 70,000 lives lost to drug overdoses in 2019, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic. 1/17/2018 | 55m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. A documentary that combines stories of people and communities impacted by opioids. 01/17/2018 | Rating TV-PG ...

The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another. By C.J. Chivers.

Today's opioid epidemic. In 1900, when cocaine and heroin were legal and popular, there were 250,000 Americans with a drug addiction, according to one historical estimate.

To understand how we arrive at that conclusion, a brief history of the opioid crisis is in order. A Brief History of the Opioid Crisis. In the past 30 or 40 years, the United States has witnessed ...