Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of ...

May 1 marks the first payment of billions to try to address ongoing harms from the overdose crisis.

Joss Sackler, whose husband was implicated in the Purdue Pharma opioid scandal, admitted to being addicted to the drugs ...

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be ...

Rodin is a clinician scientist and assistant professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A woman sat in our emergency department in agonizing pain, ...

Last week, researchers dropped a bombshell report on DFNZ, a developing new medicine derived from a class of drugs once considered too dangerous to even study. Their proposal sounded almost too good ...

A Houston-area doctor faces up to 100 years in prison after being convicted of running a "pill mill" that illegally ...

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D’Moni Anthony Moten, 27, of Woodbridge, pleaded guilty to drugs and weapons charges earlier this year.

Coming up on the Woodbridge Patch calendar: Castaways Theater presents: Saving Lives ...