An expert breaks down trends behind the deadly surge in abuse of opioid painkillers, heroin and fentanyl ...

Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, has been waging war on prescription pain medications for years. His recently-published piece, "The Opioid ...

Tool's new version of "Opiate" is No. 1 on Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart.

The opioid crisis may be contributing to decreased labor force participation, especially so in certain states, according to a chart by Deutsche Bank's Torsen Slok.

Increases in opioid prescriptions may be associated with increased risk of opioid misuse, opioid use disorder, and opioid-related overdose among postpartum women.

The risk of a single 5-day opioid prescription, in one chart Limiting the length of opioid prescriptions isn’t inhumane. It could save lives.

The original idea for this comparison, which is based on the CDC's mortality data and prescribing rate maps, is credited to business analyst John Alan Tucker, who published charts like this one on ...

And according to data from Deutsche Bank Research, opioid-related deaths per million inhabitants has drastically increased in the U.S. compared to the other Organization for Economic Cooperation ...

Trump press secretary Sean Spicer said the Department of Justice may step up enforcement against states that have voted to legalize recreational marijuana, comparing it to the opioid crisis. While ...

Even though researchers do still have a lot of questions about marijuana they want answered, the opioid comparison doesn't stand up, no matter how you look at it.