opioid epidemic

The machine offers medications like NARCAN or Naloxone that can be life-saving during an overdose.

The Arizona Department of Health Services has launched a new campaign aimed at expanding the use of the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone.

Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office has submitted its first order for more than 55,000 units of an opioid overdose treatment drug for distribution to Arizona counties.

The settlement is part of a recent push to hold pharmacies accountable for business practices that may have contributed to the ongoing opioid crisis.

Yavapai County has reported one fentanyl death among teenagers so far this year. School officials have called the move a proactive, preventative measure.

Coconino County Health and Human Services will lead an effort to distribute funds from a multi-billion-dollar settlement with drugmakers to local cities and municipalities.

Lawmakers in the Arizona Senate have advanced a bill that would allow law enforcement to charge fentanyl dealers with first-degree murder that's punishable by life in prison or the death penalty.

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of drug overdose deaths among Black, American Indian and Alaska Native people increased significantly in the U.S. in 2020 over the previous year.

Two women were arrested last week near Casa Grande after police found half-a-million fentanyl pills during a speeding stop on Interstate 10.

Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors.