Candice Fee isn’t sure who’s right in the debate over the future of Medicaid: the Republican president whose party says it will leave federal health funding intact as it seeks to slice billions in ...

Philadelphia’s 7% drop in fatal overdoses in 2023 is notable. Still, opioid use disorder claimed the lives of over 1,100 residents that year – more than three times as many lives as 10 years earlier.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are flowing into Thurston County annually following settlements from state and county lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors and marketers. County public ...

Washington County is allocating $2.69 million in the nationwide opioid settlement money this year to two dozen local ...

Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and the staggering majority have been ...

Amid budget cuts at both the federal and state level, the Spokane Regional Health district is at risk of losing funding.

A new analysis shows that Colorado opioid deaths declined in 2024, but lag behind other states where opioid deaths have significantly decreased. In Colorado, opioid deaths declined by 8 percent from ...

Astria Health has made Naloxone (Narcan) available for free in the emergency room waiting areas of Astria Sunnyside Hospital, ...

The bill marks the latest step taken by Congress to address the tens of thousands of deaths attributable to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl each year.

The Ellensburg Police Department (EPD) is working with the Department of Health to address the opioid epidemic through the ...

The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, ...

U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have reproduced the pain-relieving effects of cannabis with a synthesized compound that ...