Funding cuts for fentanyl test strips raise concerns: "It doesn't make sense"
Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs for dangerous contaminants, including fentanyl and xylazine.
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Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs for dangerous contaminants, including fentanyl and xylazine.
Cincinnati Reds left-hander Wade Miley is accused in court documents of providing drugs to the late Tyler Skaggs, a Los Angeles Angels pitcher who died of an accidental overdose in Texas during a 2019 road trip.
A Euless woman is advocating for a bill in the Texas Legislature after her husband's death.
The vending machines have saved at least three lives since they were rolled out last year.
Authorities found 70 pounds of fentanyl hidden inside boxes of slices of cactus, a Mexican food stable known as nopales.
Federal officials approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging Walgreens knowingly filled millions of unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances.
Overdose deaths have slowed 18% since a peak last year, the CDC estimates.
Drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic, which many use for weight loss, may also help patients suffering from addiction, according to a new study.
As we continue to see an opioid crisis in our communities, there's an overwhelming push to combat this.
Almost one in five survey responders had lost a family member or close friend to a drug overdose, researchers found.
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2019 after it faced scores of lawsuits related to the opioid crisis.
Touching fentanyl or being near it won't cause a drug overdose, experts told CBS News.
At varsity football games this Thursday and Friday, school districts across Texas will be passing out a prevention playbook to educate people about the dangers of misusing prescription drugs.
But the major pharmacy chain says the filing is part of a plan to bring it back to financial health.
September is National Recovery Month.
The grocery store chain said most of the money will go to states, local governments and Native American tribes.
It has been almost two years since a mother in The Colony found her 25-year-old son dead in his room from fentanyl poisoning.
A new study published online March 8 by The American Academy of Pediatrics notes more children under the age of five are dying from overdosing on opioids.
What may be the biggest threat to the health and safety of children in North Texas brought a lot of parents together Thursday night in Carrollton.
A new program launched by the Texas Attorney General's Office is working to educate high school football crowds about youth opioid abuse and how to fight it.
Deal would make it the first major pharmacy chain to reach a nationwide settlement over its handling of opioid prescriptions.
A federal program that maps where and when overdoses happen could soon come to Dallas.
What is often called "rainbow fentanyl" has been seized by law enforcement agencies in 18 states just this month, the DEA reports.
