Cardinal Health has launched its new Opioid Action Programme, aimed at helping communities in four of the nation's hardest-hit states across Appalachia combat the opioid epidemic. The pilot programme ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — As President Barack Obama’s administration prods Congress to pump $1.1 billion more into substance abuse treatment, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is heading to Appalachia ...

In her new book, "The Nature of Pain: Roots, Recovery, and Redemption Amid the Opioid Crisis," author and Kentucky native Mandi Fugate Sheffel describes her recovery from addiction and the opioid ...

US Doctors, Pharmacists Charged In Crackdown On Opioid Prescriptions Most of the charges involved health professionals in the Appalachia region, where poverty is deep and doctors and pharmacies pumped ...

Pennington Gap, Va. — On a Saturday evening in June, people of this rural region gathered at the historic Lee Theatre to celebrate the founding of Higher Ground Women's Recovery Residence. Kingsolver, ...

The city of Welch, W.Va., is suing five organizations in the pharmaceutical supply chain for contributing to high rates of opioid drug abuse in the 2,200-population town, according to the West ...

A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 of its opioid settlement money on an ice rink. That amount wasn't ...

BOSTON- U.S. shareholder activists are addressing the soaring death toll from opioid drug abuse, asking companies that make and distribute the painkillers to review the risks their businesses could ...

(Reuters) - An Ohio drug wholesale distributor and two former executives were charged on Thursday with profiting from the U.S. opioid epidemic by selling millions of pills despite signs the addictive ...