Opioids

St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared the opioid epidemic in the county a public health emergency and endorsed a plan to have public health…

Preliminary data from the community health agency NCADA show the number of opioid-related deaths in the St. Louis area rose again last year, as they have…

Paramedics, firefighters and other emergency responders have long carried the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone. But Missouri health officials also…

Last year, frustrated with a lack of commitment from state legislators, St. Louis County created its own prescription-drug monitoring program with the…

The number of opioid-related deaths in the St. Louis region is poised to once again break a record.Opioid-related deaths include overdoses on prescription…

Saint Louis University researchers are one step closer to understanding how to prevent the chronic pain associated with chemotherapy.Chemotherapy patients…

U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is sharply disagreeing with President Donald Trump’s bid to apply steep tariffs to steel and aluminum imports, a move that some major…

Across the country, states desperate to prevent opioid addiction are considering medical cannabis as a solution. Citing the opioid crisis, lawmakers in...

Several St. Louis health centers will begin working next month to provide long-term residential treatment for expectant mothers in the Metro East who are…

There were nearly four times as many opioid-related deaths — 712, according to the NCADA — last year than homicides in the St. Louis area. Overdose deaths…