The drugs are 10 times more dangerous than fentanyl. They are showing up in street drugs in the South and the Midwest, and ...

While the dangers of fentanyl have been dominating headlines for years, the death toll from another class of extremely potent synthetic opioids called "nitazenes" has been climbing steadily. For ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced 9 July the approval of a new Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for the most potent opioid products on the market, saying in a statement ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has criminalized nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids that can be even stronger than fentanyl, as overdose deaths in the state mount. Nitazenes are temporarily ...

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. David McCormick has introduced a new bill that would permanently tighten restrictions of an emerging group of synthetic opioids, known as nitazenes, that are more potent ...

Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. The U.S. Food ...

Weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound appear to help people battle alcoholism and opioid addiction, a new study finds. People taking this class of drugs, called ...

The Saskatchewan government is joining other provinces that are supporting a class-action lawsuit against the opioid industry. Health Minister Jim Reiter said doing so is appropriate given the cost of ...