One in fourteen Americans are suffering from some form of addiction, according to the CDC.

Families in Nashville learn the deadly reality of fentanyl after child suffers fatal overdose.

America’s illicit drugs are being laced with one of the deadliest opioids ever created, killing in record numbers. ABC News' Bob Woodruff travels to uncover the epidemic of fentanyl poisoning.

In the final part of a series, ABC News' Bob Woodruff explores potential solutions to America’s deadly fentanyl crisis, including a visit to the first harm reduction clinic in the country.

Nearly 108,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Idaho officials have announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis

In part four of a series, ABC News’ Bob Woodruff learns how the drug fentanyl, used to treat his near-fatal injury in Iraq, nearly killed one of the Army medics who had helped save his life.

The Walgreens pharmacy chain has reached a $683 million settlement with the state of Florida in a lawsuit accusing the company of improperly dispensing millions of painkillers that contributed to the opioid crisis

In part three of a series, Bob Woodruff watches a drug seizure at the U.S.-Mexico border, speaks with a convicted drug dealer and one sheriff who is fighting to keep people like him off the streets.

Lawmakers vowed to continue investigating consulting firm McKinsey after a hearing scrutinizing its work for the Food and Drug Administration even as it advised opioid makers on boosting sales

West Virginia was ground zero in the opioid crisis and now faces a new phase as fentanyl overdoses in the area are on the rise.

In part two of Poisoned: America's Fentanyl Crisis series, ABC News' Bob Woodruff travels to West Virginia and follows one EMS team overwhelmed by fentanyl overdoses, and doctors who feel responsible.

In part one of a series, ABC News' Bob Woodruff examines how the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is devastating cities across America, and what one city is doing to respond to the epidemic.

Meet the students working as EMTs who started a nonprofit aimed at reducing opioid overdoses.

Overdose deaths in adolescents rose far more rapidly than the general population between 2019 and 2021 because of fentanyl, according to a new study of CDC data.

2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history.

There often is a serious downside for people taking medications that have a long track record of helping treat opioid addiction: discrimination

Last September, Ryan Christoff found his then 16-year-old daughter barely breathing.

Lawmakers are calling for a probe into McKinsey & Company after the consulting giant allegedly skirted conflict-of-interest rules in its work on opioid-related issues.

The CVS drug store company and pharmaceutical companies will pay Florida a combined $860 million as part of the settlement of an opioid epidemic case

They unleashed their emotions on the family they blame for the opioid epidemic.

Yale University has begun removing the Sackler name from its campus several years after announcing it would no longer accept donations from the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

A hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court has given survivors of opioid addiction and people who lost loved ones to the crisis the chance to confront members of the family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

Victims will confront members of the Sackler family.

A judge has indicated he is moving forward with a plan for the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to pump at least another $1.2 billion into a nationwide settlement of lawsuits against over the toll of opioids

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has reached a nationwide settlement over its role in the opioid crisis

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors have finalized a nationwide settlement over their role in the opioid addiction crisis

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and a group of states have not been able to hammer out a new settlement so far as another mediation deadline has passed

The nation’s top public health agency is proposing changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers

The drug overdose epidemic in the United States costs the nation roughly $1 trillion a year, according to a new bipartisan congressional report released Tuesday.

Tribes were disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic.

An agreement could end a legal challenge for Purdue Pharma.

Investigators said they are looking for the person who provided over 100 bags of fentanyl to a teen who overdosed and died.

A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis

A judge has kept lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family who own it on hold until Feb. 1 but ordered the parties to negotiate a new settlement

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an emergency order the mayor wants to tackle an opioid epidemic in its troubled Tenderloin district

Oregon is on the verge of signing onto a $26 billion settlement with the three largest distributors of opioids and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson after being one of the latest holdout states to join

Mexican drug cartels are turning to bigger, more productive labs to churn out increasing quantities of synthetic drugs like meth and fentanyl

A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis

Kaylee Hartung takes a look into the opioid crisis.

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram discusses how to combat the opioid epidemic.

States have credible claims that family members took more than $10 billion.

A federal jury says CVS, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies didn’t do enough to stop the flow of opioid pills into two Ohio counties

Nearly 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses during the height of the pandemic.

There were more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. during the pandemic.

Drug overdoses now surpass deaths from car crashes, guns and even flu.

Cities and counties in the U.S. that want to hold pharmacies accountable for the opioid crisis are closely watching a federal trial that’s coming to a close

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has taken the state’s case against the nation’s three biggest drug distributors to trial

Michael Bloomberg will spend $120 million in an effort to reduce the soaring numbers of deaths from drug overdoses, he announced today at a healthcare summit he organized