Opinion | Congress Must Continue Role in Ending Opioid Epidemic
In 2016 more than 42,000 people died of opioid overdoses; this amounts to 115 deaths every day. The epidemic has reached all corners of...
Here's What New Tennessee Opioid Restrictions Mean at Your Doctor's Office and Pharmacy
Limits on supply, strength The biggest change has to do with how much of a drug you can get and when. Under the new law, pharmacists can...
Road Not Always Perfect for Miss Tennessee
When Miss Tennessee Caty Davis was in high school in Knoxville, she says she tried to make everyone she came in contact with think...
After 'Devastating' Loss of Children to Drugs, Parents Provide Support and Fight Stigma of A
David Huntley would have done anything to save his son. He just didn’t know what to do. Throughout his teen years, Henry Huntley...
Agent: North Knox Man Buying Deadly Fentanyl from China, Korea
Authorities say a North Knoxville man was buying cheap but deadly fentanyl – a synthetic opiate showing up with fatal consequences in...
Agent: North Knox Man Buying Deadly Fentanyl from China, Korea
Authorities say a North Knoxville man was buying cheap but deadly fentanyl – a synthetic opiate showing up with fatal consequences in...
Four Arrested in Roane County after $10,000 Methamphetamine Bust
A quarter pound of methamphetamine — worth approximately $10,000 — was allegedly found in van outside a Harriman motel and in a motel...
Opinion | Antiquated Privacy Rule Blocks Treatment of Opiate Addiction, Puts Lives at Risk
Opioid misuse has reached epidemic proportions in the United States; and for the first time since the 1960s life expectancy in the U.S....
Blount Woman Charged with Possessing Heroin, Intending to Sell, in Maryville Park
A Walland woman has been charged with possession of heroin, with intent to resell, in a drug-free zone. Blount County Sheriff James Lee...
Jury Deems Heroin Supplier Guilty in Fatal Overdose of West Knoxville Woman
A jury on Thursday convicted a drug dealer of second-degree murder for selling to a middleman heroin that proved deadly for a West...