Public Health

Prescription opioid use and overdoses among teenagers and children looks to be declining, according to two studies published this month in the journal Pediatrics.

Opioid exposure is affecting children across the U.S. on a daily basis, according to a study published online by Pediatrics.

The CDC Foundation's new issue of Business Pulse identifies four critical issues facing employers in relation to the nation's opioid overdose epidemic.

The probability of chronic opioid use spikes after just a few days of prescribed use, according to a new study published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

As government and healthcare officials work to curb the use of highly addictive opioid prescription painkillers, a research paper published February in the journal PAIN suggests the number of Americans dealing with chronic pain is rising.

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to allocate funds to combat the nation's opioid epidemic in the budget for fiscal year 2018.

Mercy Clinic Oncology and Hematology in Norman (Okla.) has been closed since Feb. 27 after a burst pipe caused water damage, according to The Norman Transcript.

The Cabell County (W.V.) Commission on Thursday filed suit against drug wholesalers and pharmaceutical retailers to recoup finances spent addressing the high rates of opioid abuse in the community, according to a report from The Herald-Dispatch.

A team of surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., conducted an initiative that reduced opioid prescriptions for a number of minor procedures by 53 percent. Despite the reduction in prescriptions, patients still didn't use all the pills they…

Drug overdose deaths in West Virginia have overwhelmed the state's indigent burial program for the fifth consecutive year, according to The Washington Post.