Death rates from specific combinations of opioids with stimulants other than cocaine, most commonly fentanyl mixed with methamphetamine, were 8.9 per 100,000 adults in intervention communities ...

Marshall is a professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. The opioid and overdose crisis is a national tragedy, claiming more than 1 million lives since 1999.

Kroger has finalized its $1.37 billion settlement over its role in the opioid crisis, the company and state attorneys general said Monday. The agreement will settle most of claims made by states ...

Walmart reached a proposed settlement agreement about its distribution of prescribed opioids on Friday according to Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. This settlement includes three ...

The researchers identified records of people with diagnosed SUDs—specifically opioid use disorder (OUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD)—who also happened to be taking a GLP-1 RA for diabetes or ...

Newly published research is the latest to suggest that semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs can help treat people’s addiction to both opioids and alcohol. GLP-1 drugs have been a valuable treatment ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, made by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk, can reduce rates of opioid and alcohol abuse by up to 50%, according to a new study that supports expectations the drugs can ...

A study published recently in the journal Addiction shows that people with substance-use disorders who take these weight-loss drugs are less likely to experience opioid overdose or alcohol ...

Walmart WMT1.17%increase; green up pointing triangle has reached a proposed settlement agreement in connection with three shareholder lawsuits regarding its distribution of prescription opioids ...

In the study, published Thursday in the scientific journal Addiction, researchers found people with opioid or alcohol use disorder who take Ozempic or similar medications appear to have a 40% ...

Fritz died last month at 60 years old, and now Wolfe, 60, is reflecting on their decadeslong friendship and Fritz’s private battle with opioid addiction. “Here’s the deal,” Wolfe told ...

A 2022 analysis by the congressional Joint Economic Committee estimated that the opioid crisis cost the U.S. nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020, opens new tab. Overdoses from synthetic opioids killed ...