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FDA Warns 14 Online Sellers of Unapproved Ketamine Products
Federal regulators are moving against a market that has grown up alongside legitimate psychedelic medicine, and the risk falls on people buying injectable drugs from websites. Anyone worried about ketamine addiction or about someone ordering ketamine online should know what the FDA found and how to get help for ketamine addiction. On July 7, 2026, …
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Teen Kratom Use Rose 51% as FDA Warns the Leaf Is an Opioid
Kratom use among American teenagers rose by roughly half in a single year, according to federal survey data, and the increase is sharpening a policy fight over whether the leaf itself drives opioid addiction. The Food and Drug Administration has concluded the plant contains opioid compounds and warns Americans against using it. Regulators have nonetheless …
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Grocer Sues Broker Over $40 Million Opioid Coverage Dispute
Opioid addiction has produced one of the largest waves of civil litigation in American history, and the settlements that followed were supposed to pay for treatment, naloxone distribution and prevention. A lawsuit filed in June offers an unusually clear look at the machinery underneath that money, and at how much of it can get tied …
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North Carolina Opioid Overdoses Fall 27% Despite Local Spike
Opioid overdoses in North Carolina fell 27% through the first half of 2026, according to state Department of Health and Human Services data reported by WRAL on August 14. Between January and June, emergency departments recorded 2,031 opioid overdoses statewide, more than 700 fewer than the same period a year earlier. In the same month, …
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Every Nitazene Death in One Ohio County Also Involved Fentanyl
Across 2023 and 2024, a medical examiner in one Ohio county reviewed 45 deaths involving nitazenes. In every single one, fentanyl was present too. That pattern is the clearest available picture of how these synthetic opioids are actually reaching people, which is hidden inside other drugs rather than sold under their own name. Nitazenes are …
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Kentucky Hospitals Log 2,000 Peer Contacts in Opioid Recovery
Kentucky recorded 1,110 overdose deaths in 2025. That is a fourth consecutive annual decline and a drop of nearly 23% in a single year, and it is still more than a thousand people. Both facts matter for anyone tracking opioid addiction in the state, because the programs behind the decline are the ones now being …
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Rextovy Becomes Third Over the Counter Naloxone Nasal Spray
Anyone who keeps over the counter naloxone in a bag, a glovebox, or a kitchen drawer has a third option as of this summer. The Food and Drug Administration has approved Rextovy, a 4 milligram naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray, for nonprescription sale. It is approved for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose …
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Wyoming Stores Clear 7-OH Kratom Products Under New Bans
People who have been using concentrated kratom extracts to manage pain, withdrawal, or opioid addiction are finding the shelves empty in Casper, Wyoming. Vape stores and other outlets have mostly sold off products containing over-threshold amounts of 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, after a new state law took effect and a temporary federal scheduling order approached. …
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Nearly 40% of Colorado Jails Post No Opioid Treatment Policy
Colorado told its county jails four years ago to provide medications for opioid use disorder and to publish their policies for doing it. A review of all 46 county jails in the state found that nearly 40 percent still have no publicly available policy explaining how they deliver opioid addiction treatment. The study, from researchers …
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Review Finds No Single Fix for Opioid Addiction Crisis
Overdose deaths in the United States fell sharply in 2024, and researchers are still working out why. A peer-reviewed analysis published in June offers a careful answer that matters for anyone navigating opioid addiction treatment right now. It concludes that no single intervention explains the decline, and no single intervention sustains recovery either. The narrative …
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