opioid

The Kansas Department of Corrections is using opioid settlement funds to pay for a program aimed at reducing opioid overdose deaths. Opioids like fentanyl are a major driver of rapidly rising overdose deaths in Kansas.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has extended the deadline for local entities to send letters of intent for grants meant to counteract impacts from the opioid epidemic.

Thirty-four-year-old Tanner first tried opioids as a teenager. Since then, he says doctors have helped him by prescribing medications that reduce cravings.

The state’s federally funded “More Narcan Please” program ran out of money in January, in part due to high demand. Advocates say Texas should invest more in the harm reduction effort.

Several members of a task force formed by Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer to address the opioid crisis claim his refusal to consider Medicaid expansion...

Oklahoma’s foster care system has been beleaguered by high rates of abuse and neglect for years.And, as The Tulsa World reports, much of that child abuse…

From Texas Standard . President Donald Trump has declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. The Texas Department of State Health Services...

A few years ago, Renea Molden’s doctors told her they wanted to take her off hydrocodone pills. “I was mad,” Molden says. “I’ll be honest. I was mad. I...

Potter County, Texas, which encompasses part of Amarillo, is considering launching a lawsuit against major drug companies.As The Amarillo Globe-News…

For the first time in its annual survey of rural America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that mortality rates of working-age adults are on the...