JAN HOFFMAN

The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to allow the overdose-reversal medication to be sold without a prescription, a step toward making it...

The case illustrates the enormous challenges that victims of the opioid crisis have had in getting compensation from the pharmaceutical industry, despite its pledge of...

The overdose reversal drug has been administered mostly by emergency responders and outreach workers. If the agency approves a nonprescription version, it could become as...

A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so severe that some result in amputation.

A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so severe that some result in amputation.

A third of parents now feel they should be the ones to decide whether to get their children immunized against measles, mumps and other childhood...

The money would help pay for addiction treatment and drug education programs in communities across the United States.

The issue is whether a federal law that seeks to place Native American foster children in Native American homes is constitutional. The case could turn...

The agreement would resolve thousands of lawsuits over the retailers’ role in the addiction crisis. But a large majority of state, local and tribal governments...

Many residency programs for obstetricians and gynecologists are in a risky position, caught between state abortion bans and accreditation requirements.