FAIR Health has released the Opioid Tracker, a free, interactive tool tracking opioid abuse and dependence state by state. A brief released simultaneously offers a user's guide to the Opioid Tracker.

Researchers have long known that people living with chronic pain and long-term opioid prescriptions can experience downward ...

Cambridge, Mass.- based Biobot Analytics is developing technology to measure traces of drugs in sewers. In doing so, researchers will be able to analyze patterns of ongoing drug use and provide ...

Naloxone can be used to reduce an opioid overdose. It's a valuable tool to help people, said Opioid Policy Institute Director Jonathan Stoltman, but some communities spend opioid settlement money on ...

Lifesaving or wasteful? Opinion is divided on the ways local communities are using opioid settlement funds. Survivors of the overdose crisis and families who’ve lost loved ones to it are raising ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has launched online dashboards to track the millions of dollars the state expects to receive from national opioid lawsuit settlements. Under a master settlement ...

HARRISBURG — A first-of-its-kind database from Spotlight PA will make it easier for the public to track how Pennsylvania counties decided to spend tens of millions of dollars from their first rounds ...

There were about 3,330 overdose deaths in Pennsylvania in 2024, down from over 4,700 in 2023. Frazao Studio Latino/E+ Collection via Getty Images Pennsylvania is due to receive US$2.2 billion dollars ...

Pennsylvania is due to receive $2.2 billion from the national opioid settlements, and a new database shows the public where that money is going. Starting in 2021, a national, bipartisan coalition of ...