Federal prosecutors in Vermont say a health information technology company will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it helped set up an electronic health records system that encouraged physicians to prescribe opioids to people who might not need them

The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are being sentenced in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say helped fuel the national opioid epidemic. Starting Monday, seven people who worked for Insys Therapeutics will appear in Boston federal court for their sentencing. The case against company founder John Kapoor and his associates was considered the first to hold...

Owners of electric vehicles in a number of states will start seeing fees to pay for road repairs in the new year. At least eight states will begin charging new or higher registration fees Wednesday for electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids. The new fees mean that, for the first time, a majority of states will assess special fees on gas-free...

A narcotics operation in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods netted 200 arrests and took 21 guns and around $670,000 worth of drugs off the streets, police say.

Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine. But only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be removed from the list of drugs of abuse and will be treated the same as alcohol as part of changes to the joint drug agreement between MLB and the players’ association....

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association agreed to begin testing for opioids, cocaine, fentanyl and synthetic THC. They will also remove marijuana from the list of drugs of abuse.

Players who test positive for opioids would enter treatment and not be suspended under the change to Major League Baseball’s drug agreement being negotiated by management and the players’ association, according to union head Tony Clark. Talks to add testing for opioids began following the death this year of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Players have been tested...

Authorities say three drugs dealers who attempted to sell narcotics to school students in Philadelphia have been arrested.

An opioid overdose antidote spray was not in stock in most Philadelphia pharmacies during a 2017 survey, and the shortage was greatest in predominantly minority neighborhoods and areas with the most fatal opioid overdoses, according to a study released Friday.

In 2018, more than 1,800 babies were born addicted to drugs in Pennsylvania. This epidemic is difficult to solve because it’s been hard to evaluate exactly drastically it’s damaging communities. For years, their addiction was not a reportable medical condition. That has changed, and it’s having a positive effect on the children and their families. 

Opioid prescriptions remain common for teens and young adults, a new study finds. NBC News reported that, from 2005 to 2015, nearly 15 percent of teens and young adults received an opioid prescription during an emergency room visit, according to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. That’s compared with 3 percent among those who were seen in an...

Authorities in the Philadelphia suburbs are charging six people for four opioid overdose deaths that have occurred there since August.

Six people were charged in Montgomery County for allegedly operating an opioid ring that led to four overdose deaths.

Pennsylvania is setting up a $15 million pilot program to give support services and housing help for state residents fighting opioid addiction.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

Warning: The following video contains photos that some people may find disturbing. A family friend captured the moment when Rehoboth Beach Nora Sheehan identified her 25-year-old son at a Maryland funeral home after he died of an overdose. Sheehan posted the photos online, and though she acknowledges they’re disturbing, she says she wants people to see the true face and...

Philadelphia is offering free public overdose rescue training due to the opioid crisis. Deputy Behavioral Health Commissioner Roland Lamb, and Ramon Cruz, a certified peer’s specialist at the Behavioral Health Department, discuss the training show show how people can help somone experiencing an overdose.

More than a dozen people were charged with illegally prescribing opioids to patients in the Philadelphia region who didn’t need the drugs in exchange for cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

A collaborative new program caters to moms and moms-to-be struggling with opioids in Lackawanna and Susquehanna counties, where the rate of hospitalized infants born dependent on drugs in fiscal 2016 and 2017 was about twice the state average.

From homelessness, to overdoses, the streets of Kensington have become ground zero for an epidemic now spreading across the city.