Drug Abuse

Arkansans who sell drugs which cause fatal overdoses could potentially face the death penalty under proposed legislation endorsed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The Arkansas-based company is the latest retailer to agree to a settlement over the dispensing of addictive opioid medications. Walmart had previously vowed to fight the litigation.

“The First Step” is being screened Friday at 6 p.m. at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock.

36 drop off locations will be staffed Saturday around the state for unused medications. Officials say the goal is to keep drugs from being abused or contaminating the environment.

The Bentonville-based retailer said it "will appeal this flawed verdict, which is a reflection of a trial that was engineered to favor the plaintiffs’ attorneys and was riddled with remarkable legal and factual mistakes."

A week after one Henderson State University professor was acquitted of criminal charges, a second professor pleaded guilty to three felonies Friday and was sentenced.

The National Institutes of Drug Abuse has awarded $13.8 million to UAMS for the clinical trial of a drug that counters the effects of using methamphetamine.

Arkansas’ Republican governor is voicing his support for federal legislation addressing the disparity in sentencing for crimes related to cocaine and…

Damages could total in the billions. "Walmart had the responsibility and the means to help prevent the diversion of prescription opioids. Instead, for years, it did the opposite," the government said.

A federal judge has ruled a drug recovery program and a company owned by an Arkansas state lawmaker violated labor laws by requiring participants to work…