As the opioid crisis ravages the nation, emergency department physicians in Philadelphia are trying to use data and new interventions to change the way opioids are being prescribed, according to a ...

Philadelphia on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against drugmakers for their alleged role in contributing to the nation’s ongoing opioid overdose and addiction crisis. The suit puts the city in league with ...

A growing number of people are turning to medical marijuana for pain control, and doctors say cannabis is generally safer than opioids and can be just as effective. Rothman Orthopedics, headquartered ...

The opioid epidemic is arguably the most devastating public health crisis of our time. Americans are acutely aware of the crisis’ general devastation, yet the humanity of the crisis often fades behind ...

A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for ...

Philadelphia on Thursday sued the country’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers for their role in the opioid crisis, alleging that they helped to spur a wave of addiction and overdose deaths in ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The City of Philadelphia is recruiting residents to help in fighting the opioid epidemic. The city health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, announced a new awareness campaign on ...

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, under a new deal that was formally approved by ...

Philadelphia has disputed a state ruling that it should not have spent money from opioid-related legal settlements on home repairs and small... Ever since moving in five years ago, Tiffany has been ...

Nitazenes, a class of synthetic drugs 40 times more potent than fentanyl, are steadily becoming more common on both sides of the Atlantic. Nitazenes were first synthesized in the 1950s by CIBA ...