A long line of people gathered Monday morning outside a methadone treatment clinic on East Quincy Street, and separated themselves to a proper distance away from one another only after a KSAT 12 photographer began gathering footage.

It's a chance for experts in San Antonio to change the entire way opioid disorder is treated in the state of Texas. $7.2 million was just awarded to the team at UT Health San Antonio that could soon make medicine and doctor's visits free for patients.

The Bexar County Opioid Task Force announced on Tuesday that it will be using money from a grant to will help those who are released from jail and reentering the community.

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, along with Pct 2. Commissioner Justin Rodriguez and TJ Mayes, Chairman of the Bexar County Opioid Task Force, will announce an expansion of the county’s mental health program.

One local pharmacist is raising awareness about a C4 controlled substance that many people tend to underestimate. The drug is called Tramadol.

The money from the county budget will fund needed supplies and pay trained addiction experts to hit the streets and interact with those affected by the opioid epidemic.

A landmark ruling Monday by an Oklahoma state judge ordering pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis is resonating with the leader of the Bexar County Opioid Task Force.

The UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing and the Bexar County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday that they will begin distributing a medication used to reverse opioid overdose to released inmates.

Is this too over the top, or would you consider it appropriately scary, given the seriousness of the subject matter?

Narcan is a term that seems to be making repeated headlines. But what exactly is it? And what does it do?

The U.S. is in the middle of an opioid epidemic, but it might surprise you to learn that older Americans are most at-risk of dependence. Now, a new approach to managing pain after surgery is hoping to change that.

A team of researchers is studying opioid addiction to create an “addiction risk score” to help doctors better assess patients.

The obituary which has been widely shared on social media, is part cautionary tale and part call-to-action. It's a motivational message for addicts and a plea for less judgment and more empathy for those who are not.

"We have a huge opioid crisis down here in the state of Texas. More people are dying from opioid overdose than at the peak of the HIV epidemic," said Esteban Lopez, chief medical officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas.

Belen Magdaleno admitted to stealing a prescription pad from the doctor's office where she worked, an arrest affidavit says.

A mother who lost two sons to a drug overdose was in San Antonio to share her story about the tragedy.