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The US Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday as it heard a challenge to Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement immunizing the Sackler family that controlled the drugmaker from future litigation.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids

The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge on Monday to Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement immunizing the family that controlled the drugmaker from future litigation.

To overcome problematic opioid use, traditional forms of opioid substitution therapy, such as methadone and oral buprenorphine, have become valuable tools. Research shows that patients receiving substitution therapy are more likely to stay in treatment and stop using heroin than patients receiving treatments that do not involve substitutes – such…

Possession of Class A drugs carries a sentence of seven years inprisonment

Lead author says study led by University of Sydney is longest ever to have looked at relationship between the two drugs

Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.

UK law enforcement want to stop any rise in use of the drugs amid a fall in opium production in Afghanistan.

Eleven members of a criminal gang have been arrested and charged by detectives who have seized the UK’s largest ever stash of synthetic opioids.

The decades-old surgical drug ketamine has found a new use — as an alternative to opioids for patients with chronic pain

The FDA called for treatments for stimulant use disorder. Doctors say current options are limited