Category: Drug Abuse

Since the early 2000’s, opioids, specifically synthetic opioids, have had detrimental effects in the United States. There are a number…

Over the past decade, the opioid epidemic has come more into the limelight as politicians and media begin to recognize…

In September of 2018, NOVA, the highly popular PBS series on science and technology published a documentary on the addiction…

Opioid addiction is a problem across the country, and much of the world. However, there are certain areas around the…

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that drug overdoses killed more than 72,000 Americans in…

Rob and Diane Perez are restaurant owners in Lexington, Kentucky who made a startling realization about their staff over five…

Across the United States, the epidemic of fentanyl continues to plague communities and neighborhoods. In Kentucky alone, drug overdose deaths…

In early November, despite concerns and criticism, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new powerful opioid painkiller that is…

According to one national study of more than 1,000 American students from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse,…