
opioid overdoses

(AP Photo/Leah Willingham)Hundreds of pharmacies are participating in a state program to make free naloxone available without a prescription

Interview: Dr. Lewis Nelson, Chair of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers NJ Medical School
(NJ Spotlight News)Bill is latest in state’s efforts to stem tide of overdoses and deaths from opioids

Opioid abuse has become so pervasive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. is in the grips of an epidemic. The agency ...

New guidelines to end the epidemic of addiction and death from prescription painkillers. The CDC instructs doctors treating chronic pain to prescribe a limited amount ...