Opioids

Prosecutors say she stole the medicine from Heartland Regional Medical Center

Join us at the Carbondale Public Library for a film screening and community conversation on Sunday, February 5, 2023. This event is free and open to the public. Brent Van Ham of SIU School of Medicine will conduct NARCAN training after the film, conversation, and Q&A with the audience.

Public health experts and law enforcement blame the uptick in overdose deaths on fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that is much more deadly than other derivatives.

The state will receive $19.8 million from a settlement reached Thursday between a coalition of attorneys general, including Illinois Attorney General…

In 2018 Heartland Regional Medical Center’s auxiliary volunteers donated 75 doses of Naloxone (Na-lox-own), an opioid overdose treatment to the Marion…

Communities across the Midwest have been devastated by the opioid epidemic. But there's still a lot of misunderstanding about how opioids affect our...

A traffic stop in Johnson County Sunday resulted in the seizure of nearly two pounds of Oxycodone pills.Illinois State Police say the car was initially…

Federal funding is headed to Cairo to to help deal with the opioid crisis.A 212-thousand dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Distance…

WSIU and Illinois Newsroom reported this story as part of a weeklong series from public radio stations around the state focusing on the potential impact…

Centerstone is opening a Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) facility in Marion.Mona Miller, the M-A-T Grant Coordinator says the facility is designed for…