Thanks to the implementation of effective policy, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 24% in 2024. Members of Congress must act to preserve these policies and gains. And…

TOPEKA — Kansas students face danger from cartel-manufactured opioids, a law enforcement official warned the state Board of Education on Tuesday. During the BOE meeting, Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director Tony Mattivi cautioned board members…

Free naloxone vending machines will be placed in several counties across Kansas by the end of the year. The machines will be in Douglas, Johnson and Wyandotte counties in northeast Kansas. They’ll also be placed…

A portion of an opioid settlement will help the county’s Drug Court program. Troy Smith, Drug Court director, and Chief Judge Dan Creitz told commissioners they want 31st Judicial District’s Drug Court program to use…

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention new recommendations are an…

Despite improvements in treatment access as the overdose crisis has spiraled over the last decade, many people with opioid use disorder aren’t getting medications to treat their addiction, a new study has found. And the…

TOPEKA — An effort to allow Kansans access to a tool that tests for the drug fentanyl is heading in the wrong direction after the Kansas senate blocked a provision legalizing it. Senators chose last…

People come to Valley Hope in Atchison, Kansas, to get help. They’re fed up with addiction to cocaine or methamphetamine or OxyContin. And that’s when some find out through a drug test that they’re actually…

Annual deaths from drug overdoses in the U.S. topped 100,000 for the first time, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, a harrowing statistic as the nation continues to cope with the…

To fight the ongoing opioid crisis — the addiction to high-powered prescription painkillers — a Southeast Kansas coalition will work to remove the barriers that keep someone from treatment. In large part, that translates to…