I n a recent study published in the journal iScience, researchers from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) found ...

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to ...

Law enforcement officials arrested a Manhattan man Tuesday and seized approximately 12 kilos of fentanyl during an afternoon raid at an apartment in the ...

Across the United States hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or the ...

Women in Indiana and Texas have revealed to the Marshall Project how they were given pain medications during childbirth and nearly had their children taken away after positive drug tests.

The US opioid overdose epidemic has fundamentally changed, with increased fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine usage and decreased heroin usage.

The CDC issued a warning over carfentanil which is 100x deadlier than fentanyl after its first spike in related overdose deaths since 2016.

Drug-testing of new mothers is ubiquitous, but protections for false-positive results are not—even when hospital error is to ...