Know the Difference Between These Often Misused Terms and Why It Matters Opioids, sometimes called narcotics, are a type of drug generally used to alleviate pain. While they can be effective in managing pain, unfortunately, opioids and their synthetic variants can be highly...

The dog that saved Mike Favor’s life was a German shepherd puppy named Honey: 8 weeks old, heart condition, four months to live. This was in 2016, and Mr. Favor was trying to get sober, after 13 years of active cocaine addiction. When he heard about the puppy, at a rescue...

During the 2016 presidential election, the opioid crisis caught the spotlight as one of the central issues for voters in the Midwest and Northeast. But the recent Republican Primary in New Hampshire left voters feeling dissatisfied with how the candidates plan to address the...

BEIJING — The United States and China will hold formal high-level talks in Beijing next week aimed at limiting the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., senior Chinese officials tell NBC News, resuming counternarcotics cooperation that was suspended for more than a year even as...

Americans may not say it aloud, but drug addiction has long been considered a moral failing. "Just say no," as Nancy Reagan famously declared during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80s. That thinking has been slow to evolve.

When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans woke up to an unprecedented threat scouring communities - and a deepening cultural divide over what to do about it. For the first time in U.S. history, fatal overdoses peaked above...

Opioid overdose reversal medicines like Narcan may soon be as standard-issue as fire extinguishers in affordable and public housing communities. The federal government urged housing providers to stock drugs like Narcan onsite in a joint letter signed by the White House Office of...

Overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum women nearly tripled between 2018 and 2021, according to a study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published Wednesday. The rate of overdoses increased from 4.9 per 100,000 women between the ages 35-44 to 15.8 in 2021, the...

Tis the season for holiday celebrations and family gatherings; the season of gift-giving and champagne-toasting; the season in which many of us come together to ‘eat, drink, and be merry.’ Yet as fun and joyous as they can be, the holidays often commence a challenging time for...