A trial date was set for a federal civil suit that claims Publix fueled the country's opioid epidemic. The National ...

The Lake County Opiate Task Force announced this week its official name change to the Lake County Addiction Task Force. According to officials, the action marks a “significant step in the group’s ...

Publix Super Markets is accused in a lawsuit of dispensing opioids without red-flag controls, amid soaring sales of the prescriptions.

In Vermont, more than 100 people die every year from opiate overdoses. Hundreds of people in Chittenden County suffer non-fatal opiate overdoses every year. Public consumption of drugs continues ...

When mice are full and eat sugar, these nerve cells not only release signaling molecules that stimulate satiety, but also one of the body's own opiate: ß-endorphin. This acts on other nerve cells ...

In mice and humans, the "dessert-stomach pathway" is activated by mere perception by releasing the opiate ß-endorphin, which makes evolutionary sense because sugar provides quick energy.

When mice are full and eat sugar, these nerve cells not only release signaling molecues that stimulate satiety, but also one of the body's own opiate: ß-endorphin. This acts on other nerve cells ...

Opioid-related deaths are declining for the first time in nearly a decade as opiate bridge programming enrollment has increased, Austin-Travis County EMS officials confirmed at the city’s ...

Of the 1,328 people registered with drug services in Kyiv, so far, most have been able to get their opiate substitution medication. But services in other parts of the country aren’t faring so well.