The KING 5 Investigators expose a state child endangerment law that calls for tough penalties when people expose children to ...

When he was 13, he brought a backpack full of pills from his parents’ medicine chest — Benadryl, Tylenol, prescription ...

America’s opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev ...

The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with St. George News.

Washington — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Journavx for short-term pain that often follows surgery or injuries.

Commerce Minister Wang Wentao expressed China’s strong dissatisfaction on Wednesday over the United States’ 10 per cent ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao has expressed strong dissatisfaction with U.S. tariffs on Chinese ...

The drug, shown to be almost as effective as opioids for short-term pain, is the first fundamentally new kind of painkiller to win FDA approval in more than 20 years.

Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to more serious opioids like heroin and fentanyl, being dispensed at the Alameda Health ...

While partly off the radar for many, the opioid crisis is still unfolding and continuing ... Administration’s newest National Drug Threat Assessment, 49 states and Washington, D.C., have all reported ...