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Judge will approve opioid settlement with Purdue and Sackler family

  • Nov 14, 2025

Mike Trout testifies in Tyler Skaggs' wrongful death trial

  • Oct 22, 2025

Trout could testify in Skaggs' wrongful death trial

  • Oct 21, 2025

FDA pushes for ban of potent Kratom derivative 7-OH amid risks

  • Jul 30, 2025

IE overdose death linked to opioid 100 times stronger than fentanyl

  • Jul 23, 2025

States agree to $7.4 billion opioid settlement

  • Jun 16, 2025

Exclusive: DEA seizes large amount of carfentanil in the mail

  • Apr 30, 2025

New drug three times stronger than fentanyl linked to LA County death

  • Dec 20, 2024

Latest Videos

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Mike Trout testifies in Tyler Skaggs' wrongful death trial

  • Oct 22, 2025
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Angels' Mike Trout could testify in Tyler Skaggs' wrongful death trial

  • Oct 21, 2025
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Mike Trout expected in court Tuesday for Tyler Skaggs' wrongful death trial

  • Oct 21, 2025
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Powerful new opioid linked to Riverside County overdose death

  • Jul 23, 2025
0:24

Walgreens to pay up to $350 million in US opioid settlement

  • Apr 22, 2025
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New synthetic drug three times stronger than fentanyl linked to LA County death

  • Dec 20, 2024
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Pomona hospital offering free access to opioid overdose reversal drug

  • Aug 28, 2024
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LA County promoting new efforts to fight fentanyl abuse

  • Sep 22, 2023

Latest Stories

CVS knowingly dispensed 'excessive quantities of opioids' from 'known pill mills': DOJ lawsuit

CVS is accused of "unlawfully dispensing massive quantities of opioids ... to fuel its own profits," according to a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department.

  • Dec 19, 2024

Use of opioid overdose antidote by laypersons rose 43% from 2020 to 2022, study finds

After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths decreased 3% in 2023, the first annual decrease since 2018.

  • Oct 15, 2024

Pomona hospital offering free Narcan - drug that can reverse opioid overdose

Patients at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center may notice a new addition outside the emergency room: a Narcan distribution box.

  • Aug 28, 2024

SF's 'Cash not Drugs' legislation wants to gift people $100 a week to stay sober

San Francisco city officials are announcing legislation that would pay people up to $100 a week if they can prove they are not doing drugs. Could it work?

  • Jul 30, 2024

Supreme Court rejects multibillion-dollar opioid settlement that shielded Sackler family

The case dealt with the fate of a company and its leaders who produced and promoted a highly addictive drug, OxyContin, in the early days of an opioid crisis that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and shattered many more.

  • Jun 27, 2024