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Drug-store chain CVS Health plans to announce Thursday that it will limit opioid prescriptions in an effort to combat the epidemic that accounted for 64,000 overdose deaths last year alone. Amid pressure on pharmacists, doctors, insurers and drug companies to take action, CVS also said it would...

So, this is one of those mega-questions that I think all of our discussions about how we pay for and organize healthcare should boil down to: How does someone who is uninsured pay for treatment for serious, progressive or terminal illness? Guys, this shouldn’t be a hard question. The answer...

The latest Senate Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and enact sweeping reforms to the American health care system has generated intense opposition from the very health care providers, patient groups and insurance companies that would be forced to adapt to the changes...

Although U.S. life expectancy increased between 2000 and 2015, drug poisoning deaths from opioids stunted those gains, according to a research letter published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “It takes a significant change in the number of deaths from a specific...

In the depths of addiction, when prescription opioids become difficult and expensive to procure, people start turning to heroin to fill the void. Now, a new opioid is wreaking havoc and causing overdoses throughout the nation: Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50-100 times more potent than...

What's the most creative way you've ever tried to sneak alcohol into a venue? One woman decided that, instead of packing simply salami, she'd bring a vodka sandwich to the track...

Guy buries Nalgene bottle filled with vodka to avoid expensive festival drinks. (Reuters) As venues ratchet up prices of alcohol, more people are attempting to sneak their own booze in past security checks. Over the years, the plans have definitely gotten more elaborate – like when a woman...

Chronic pain patients enrolled in a statewide medical marijuana program are more likely to reduce their use of prescription drugs than are those patients who don’t use cannabis, according to data published online ahead of print in the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine....

While Insite is still the only bricks-and-mortar location in Vancouver where one can obtain a testing strip for fentanyl, the kits are more easily available than most people know Since mid-July, an experiment at Insite, Vancouver’s supervised-injection facility, has allowed drug users to test...

DAHLONEGA, GA. - A Friday afternoon traffic stop led to the dismantling of a multi-million-dollar north Georgia meth lab. According to police, Angel Luis Rivera-Santiago and Victor Rafael Aponte were pulled over for an unspecified traffic stop in Dahlonega. A subsequent investigation led to a...