A semitruck driver was arrested after a traffic stop Thursday near Marshall, in which Michigan State Police officers seized ...

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Michigan State Police say the semitruck driver was investigated during a traffic stop and arrested on drug and ...

92 bundles of suspected heroin along with 174 handguns were seized by MSP following a Thursday traffic stop.

A monoclonal antibody that targets heroin is effective in blocking the psychoactive and lethal effects of this drug of abuse in mice—offering a new strategy for heroin addiction and overdose treatment ...

Efforts by Purdue Pharma in 2010 to make its blockbuster prescription opioid painkiller OxyContin less prone to abuse did nothing to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths across the nation. In ...

Anyone who takes opioids can develop opioid use disorder (OUD), which includes addiction, whether they take prescription opioids or illegal opioids such as heroin. However, treatment and support are ...

The medication naloxone is so effective at saving the lives of opioid overdose victims that some people worry that it might make drug users think heroin and related drugs are no longer risky. But a ...

As overdose deaths have broken records year after year in the U.S., a group of researchers has looked around the world for new treatment options to try and has landed on a counterintuitive method. A ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

Today’s population of heroin users (those who consumed the drug within the past 12 months) now has double the representation of women compared to a decade ago. According to a new report from the ...

A Chihuahua survived an overdose of heroin and cocaine after getting into its owner’s stash at a South Carolina motel after the dog was revived with Narcan, according to law enforcement. Shane Harris ...