Aiming to curb opioid misuse, Fred Meyer pharmacies will now provide free locking bags to any pharmacy customer with an opioid prescription.

Customers at Fred Meyer's 60 pharmacies across Washington can now receive free locking bags for their opioid prescriptions.

Charlie Health reports that nearly 10% of Americans have a drug use disorder, with many not receiving necessary treatment ...

Fentanyl is the prime cause of an overdose death rate that has tripled over the last decade. In 2013, there were 3,105 deaths ...

Opioid prescriptions are triple what they were in 1999, the CDC found. Too many doctors still prescribe opioids inappropriately, driving the addiction epidemic. IE 11 is not supported.

With Opioid Prescriptions Forty Americans die every day from overdoses linked to prescription opioids, but researchers say many doctors and dentists still have a "prescribe and forget" attitude ...

How opioid prescriptions are tracked and monitored by law enforcement and health care providers . Medical sociologist Liz Chiarello discusses the effects of prescription drug monitoring programs on ...

The Justice Department on Wednesday accused CVS Pharmacy of incentivizing pharmacists to fill illegal opioid prescriptions for more than a decade, a practice that fueled the nation’s opioid crisis.

Thiyagarajah, however, annually wrote more than seven opioid prescriptions per patient per year. After about two years on Subsys, Cantone says, she took herself off the drug cold turkey.