The opioid epidemic has been a major driver of declining life expectancy for Americans. And although each community has experienced the crisis differently, a deeper look at the broad trends of the ...

In news profiles of the victims of the opioid epidemic, the narrative is familiar: a person gets a legal prescription for an opioid from their doctor after throwing out their back, then ...

A new study indicates that the opioid crisis in the US is deepening. 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 ...

We have reported on the causes and effects of the opioid epidemic for several years — interviewing government whistleblowers, doctors, and Americans who've grown dependent on the powerful pain ...

These records provide an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in more than 210,000 overdose deaths during the 14-year ...

Shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court considered an amoral deal that would give the notorious Sackler family immunity from lawsuits that target their leading role in the opioid epidemic ...

The opioid epidemic has had a whack-a-mole kind of complexity, stumping researchers for the better part of two decades, as they’ve attempted to better understand the evolving social and systemic ...

When the opioid epidemic first came about in the 1990s it was largely related to prescription drug medications for pain. From 1999 to 2021 nearly 280,000 people have died from overdose of these ...