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An Illinois House panel has endorsed a proposal expanding the use of medical marijuana to fight the state's opioid crisis.The House Executive committee…

A woman from Rockford, Illinois, is accused of causing the death of a man in South Dakota by selling him heroin.U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons says 26-year-old…

Investigators say a 14-year-old boy found dead last year in his suburban Chicago home died from an overdose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.Maywood…

Prosecutors in a northern Illinois county are increasingly taking their battle against illegal drugs and the national opioid epidemic to the people who've…

The Human Service Center of Peoria has started distributing free opioid overdose kits to the public in an effort funded by a federal grant.At least 16…

The Chicago Police Department is planning to expand a pilot program that gives detainees arrested for drugs the option of treatment or jail time.The…

MARION, Ill. (AP) - Williamson County officials are monitoring the use of a synthetic opioid they say was recently introduced in the area and poses a…

A new report says nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1…

Regional law enforcement, community and medical groups are joining forces to tackle the area’s heroin problem. The Mayor’s Community Coalition Against…

The Peoria Police Department is seeing double the number of heroin overdose deaths this year compared to 2014. So far 10 people have died from the drug.…