Billions in settlement dollars are helping EMS agencies modernize equipment, strengthen staffing and expand overdose response ...

Milwaukee County officials unveiled a new digital dashboard Tuesday to monitor opioid overdoses and direct resources to areas most in need. The initiative was announced at the King Community Center in ...

The Healey-Driscoll Administration has launched a public-facing dashboard that allows Massachusetts residents to track the allocation and spending of $1 billion in opioid settlement funds.

Overall, there were 52, 586 opioid-naive Medicare beneficiaries discharged to SNFs after hip fracture hospitalizations with a mean age of 85.7 years and a mean SNF length of stay being 47.9 days.

State health officials have launched a system aimed at allowing the public track how local governments spend the almost $1 billion in opioid settlement funds they expect to receive by 2039.

A bill proposed in this year’s Maryland General Assembly would require more transparency with how local government agencies spend money received from opioid case ...

Ezell Ruffin, a counselor, restocks the supply of Naloxone in a vending machine at the Linn County Mental Health Access Center, 501 13th St. NW, in Cedar Rapids on June 28, 2024. The machine dispenses ...

A new study from the University of Rochester Medical Center found that simple changes in how doctors prescribe pain medication can dramatically reduce opioid use after surgery. Researchers reported a ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane County is facing an increase in drug overdose deaths in 2024, with 84 percent of these deaths linked to opioids. A man known to his friends as Judge is one of the Spokane ...

From 2017 to 2019, about 50 people died of opioid overdoses in Durham County each year. During the pandemic and its aftermath, that number—following a statewide increase—spiked as high as 137 a year.