A growing number of women and children are becoming entangled in drugs as the country's number of addicts aggressively grows.

A few hundred hospitals have banded together to sue drugmakers in state courts, but far more are staying on the sidelines to avoid 'unflattering attention' about their role in the opioid crisis.

A public health official said that in Quebec, overdoses are down and drug use hasn't risen.

Four defendants, including the three big U.S. distributors, have struck a deal with Summit and Cuyahoga counties. It doesn't resolve thousands of other lawsuits filed against the firms across the U.S.

While most Republican attorneys general embrace Purdue Pharma's structured bankruptcy plan, all but two Democratic attorneys general reject it. "This is a moral issue for them," one expert says.

A new study estimates that the opioid epidemic has cost the U.S. economy about $631 billion due to health care costs and the unrealized lifetime earnings of people who died of overdoses.

The largest-ever federal action related to the U.S. opioid crisis is on the cusp of its first trial next week — and it's complicated. So here's a brief(ish) explainer breaking it all down.

Councilor Althea Garrison was sharply critical of her colleagues.

Now that Purdue is in federal bankruptcy court, four people whose lives were touched by addiction have important seats at the table — they are part of a bankruptcy committee that will play a major role in deciding how much Purdue will pay and potentially how that money is to be spent.

The Walsh administration wants more services and more enforcement, a balance that's proved elusive so far.