Opioid Crisis

San Diego County could soon have a new weapon in its arsenal to help fight its growing problem with opioid addiction.

The Centers for Disease Control revealed Wednesday that the U.S. set a grim record in 2021 with 107,000 overdose deaths.

The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress

State attorneys in Florida say pharmacy chain Walgreens ignored red flags that signaled the pharmacies were contributing to the opioid crisis. Walgreens stores in the Tampa area had abnormally high numbers of opioid prescriptions and pills distributed, prosecutors say. Walgreens attorneys say the company was misled by pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma about the potency of the drugs.

There often is a serious downside for people taking medications that have a long track record of helping treat opioid addiction: discrimination

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions

U.S. government officials said synthetic opioids are akin to “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”

Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors

A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis

As the pandemic ravaged the country, deaths from drug overdoses surged by nearly 30%, surpassing 100,000 dead for the first time in American history.

A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.

A federal jury says three retail pharmacy chains didn’t do enough to stop the flow of opioid pills into two Ohio counties

Experts believe the top drivers are the growing prevalence of deadly fentanyl in the illicit drug supply and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has taken the state’s case against the nation’s three biggest drug distributors to trial

A California judge has ruled for top drug manufacturers as local governments seek billions of dollars to cover their costs from the nation’s opioid epidemic.

It might seem like a coincidence that a man who stopped to help an apparent opioid drug overdose victim on a Los Angeles street just happened to be carrying Narcan, a nasal spray that can treat victims in such emergencies. But that man who pulled over to help was Roger Crystal — the man who invented Narcan.

Roger Crystal and his wife Michelle were driving through Downtown LA today when the medically-trained couple spotted a man having an apparent opioid overdose on the sidewalk. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021.

A bellwether trial is set to start Monday in federal court in Cleveland to determine whether retail pharmacy chains are liable for costs related to the opioid crisis in two Ohio counties