The Washington state Department of Health launched ... Washingtonians live healthy and fulfilling lives, and to stop this opioid crisis from robbing those lives from our neighbors, friends ...

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Walgreens accusing the drugstore giant of filling millions of illegitimate prescriptions across the country since 2012.

The settlement, in principle, would not shield Purdue Pharma or the Sackler family from additional liability over their role in the opioid crisis.

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now.

The intensifying focus in Washington has triggered a new level of interest on ... Food companies have tapped into “the same neural circuits that are involved in opioid addiction,” Califf said at the hearing. Sanders, who presided over the hearing ...

Patrick Kennedy suggests Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be open to use of addiction medications as well as "wellness farms" for opioid use disorder.

The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several years.

Young Black men in cities across America died of drug overdoses at high rates in the 1980s and 1990s. During the recent fentanyl crisis, older Black men in many cities have been dying at unusually high rates.

Last year, at least 327 people died of overdose in Spokane County, a more than 300% increase from 2019, when there were 80 deaths, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office. The number could climb as more toxicology reports are completed.

Clark County may yet help the city of Vancouver pay for a planned homeless shelter in the Van Mall neighborhood.

Behavioral Health Crisis Outreach Response and Education (BHCore), run by the UW School of Social Work, held its first training Friday for firefighters and emergency medical services staff from nine fire departments across the state.