A poppy is placed at the Darwin Cenotaph war memorial after the Anzac Day Dawn Service in Darwin, Australia, April 25, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kealii De Los Santos) Every Memorial ...

The first tribal nation in the U.S. to sue opioid manufacturers, Cherokee Nation is using settlement money to build a ...

A West Jordan man was found guilty last month of selling homemade drug kits across the country that instructed people on how ...

In exclusive interview with USA TODAY, Kevin Brosseau says US-Canada effort has alleviated fentanyl crisis but that nitazenes ...

Discover the dangers of kratom, a legal plant with opioid-like effects. Learn about its potential for addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and risks.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A federal jury has found a Utah man guilty of illegally selling a product that contained poppy seeds and opiates to help customers make opioid-rich tea. 40-year-old Devin ...

Purdue Pharma, the bankrupted drug manufacturer at the center of the nation’s yearslong opioid epidemic, shut down May 1. The closure is part of a $7.4 billion deal reached after Purdue and the ...

Painkillers are not new. People have been using substances to relieve pain for thousands of years. The milky sap of the opium poppy is considered one of the first known painkillers. The plant was ...

Characteristic features of plants, such as their active ingredients or flower color, may have developed through very different evolutionary histories. This is shown by an international study on the ...

Europe has avoided an American-style opioid crisis thanks to authentic Afghan heroin. How did the Taliban's crackdown on opium poppy production impact the global drug trade? 'SNL' mocks Trump over ...

Multiple states have raised the alarm in the past month about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid tied to several dozen recent overdoses that is far stronger than fentanyl. Cychlorphine is part of a new ...

Long prescribed for managing acute pain management, opioid analgesics may only provide modest and short-lived relief for many conditions and no clear benefit for others. Results of a large review of ...