opioid

My heart goes out to people in chronic pain who desperately need relief, but who don't want to end up in an even worse dilemma – addicted to the opioids that are dispensed far too frequently, and that lead far too often to damaged lives or even death ("Weighing risk of opioid addiction, many...

We have a problem in Pennsylvania. Most of us are personally aware of the devastating impact this epidemic has had on our state. If you don't have someone who has suffered within your own family, you likely know someone from your high school class or community who is fighting an uphill...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has drawn attention to what many call an epidemic: the deaths of thousands of people each year from opioid painkillers and heroin. Two-thousand fourteen was the worst year and saw more than 47,000 Americans die due to opioid painkillers, according to a Centers for...

Can medical marijuana be a fix for the prescription-drug epidemic? Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants federal health officials to find out. Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate how pot is or isn't working to reduce reliance on highly addictive...

The opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic has led to a record number of deadly drug overdoses, with the US recording an all-time high of 47,000 overdose deaths – two-thirds of which were opioid-related – in 2014. In states like New Hampshire, the crisis is so bad that it's overtaken the economy...