The Latest Breaking News from Opioids

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, who accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances

The animal tranquilizers xylazine and medetomidine are in approximately one-third of the illegal opioids available in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin and oxycodone. Animal tranquilizers enhance the user’s euphoric high from opioids, particularly in those who have developed a tolerance to the opioid. But adding the tranquilizers to these already…

Israel defence minister says all threats to Israelis ‘must be removed’; Trump says call to Putin on Ukraine was ‘productive’

Researchers think detected nitazenes may have been directly disposed of in wastewater, rather than consumed

A new report by an anti-transnational crime group has identified the core chemical components of kush, a synthetic drug that has swept through Sierra Leone and the region in the past few years.

Meet suzetrigine, a non-opioid that promises to avoid addiction risk. But some experts say it can't replace opioids

In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin.

China says US made ‘unfounded and false allegations’ about Beijing's role in flow of fentanyl opioids

The FDA has approved Journavx, an oral medication for treating pain that doesn't target the brain like addictive opioids.