opioids

A Mecklenburg County-funded program that started this month in Charlotte's detention center aims to support those trying to overcome substance use. The program is one of the efforts by the county to reduce substance use and overdose deaths in the community.

Mecklenburg County has launched a new post-overdose response team that will begin this month their efforts to reduce the number of deadly overdoses in the area.

The nationwide drugstore chain must pay the government at least $300 million and will owe another $50 million if the company is sold, merged, or transferred before 2032, according to the settlement.

An animal tranquilizer is increasingly showing up in illegal opioids around North Carolina, and it can present a deadly risk to people who take the drugs.

For the last four years, Queen City Needle Exchange has handed out free sterile syringes and the opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone. The group sets up…

The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office says an ex-pharmacy worker in Concord will spend at least five years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing…

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Attorney General's office has filed a lawsuit against major opioid distribution companies, claiming the businesses are…

The number of people going to the emergency room for opioid overdoses in North Carolina increased 40 percent in 2017.Data from the state department of…

The North Carolina attorney general is suing a pharmaceutical company for deceptive and unfair business practices. Insys Therapeutics makes a strong…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on Tuesday arrested one of their own officers on a drug-related charge. 37-year old Officer Jennifer Wolfe is charged with…