New data shows that the number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the U.S. continued to fall through the late 2010s even as the nation's overdose crisis deepened.

Mexico has closed 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet, and Adderall.

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to prison after his reported involvement in a deadly overdose in 2021.According to information from the Department of Justice, Dallas man Robert Habtemariam plead guilty to possession with intent to manufacture and deliver Fentanyl.

The nation’s top public health agency has revised its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration says a government review of prescription opioid medications, including their risks and contribution to the U.S. overdose epidemic, is still underway.

The nation’s top public health agency is proposing changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers.

A retired high-ranking official with the Drug Enforcement Administration has testified that three large opioid distributors had a “systematic failure” in monitoring suspicious pill orders.