Massachusetts cities and towns are sitting on $84 million dollars in opioid settlement funds. Some communities have yet to ...

Boston’s bid to hold two pharmacy benefit managers legally accountable for their alleged roles in the opioid epidemic under RICO and public nuisance claims was dismissed by a federal judge because it ...

A Massachusetts federal court dismissed Boston’s lawsuit against two of the largest pharmacy benefit managers in the nation; the city accused the pharma companies of misrepresenting the risks of ...

Deaths caused by opioid-related overdoses dropped by nearly 40 percent last summer, according to data released by the Boston Public Health Commission on Jan. 29. The statistics tracked between May and ...

Massachusetts and other states have reached a tentative $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma over their alleged role in fueling the nation’s opioid crisis.

Fentanyl’s prevalence in the illicit drug market has made overdoses a universal risk, affecting a wide range of students – ...

The fund will provide up to $5,000 to Boston families who lost an immediate family member to opioid overdose within the last ...

Now more than 100,000 people die every year from opioid-related overdoses. Even with a recent dip in fatal overdoses, Massachusetts ... A study from Boston University’s School of Public Health ...

A Family Overdose Support Fund, potentially the first of its kind nationwide, will offer families impacted by the overdose crisis financial aid to pay for things like funerals and mental health ...

I am thankful for Mayor DePeña’s willingness to address the dangerous flow of drugs and criminal activity occurring between ...

The Boston drugmaker ... president and CEO of RIZE Massachusetts, said in a statement to the Business Journal. RIZE is a nonprofit working to end the opioid epidemic in the Bay State.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new non-opioid pain medication developed by Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The drug, which is called suzetrigine and will be sold under ...