Launched in July 2024, a north shore drug task force has seen a growing collaboration among law enforcement agencies and an ...

Dr. Jerome Adams says that if federal funding falters, many people could lose access to care, reversing hard-earned gains ...

From 2016 to 2022, opioid prescribing for low back pain in EDs has declined, but radiograph use has remained high, especially ...

The City Council's Public Safety Committee heard about opioid trends and potential solutions to the drug crisis during a ...

At the end of 2023, long-awaited news arrived in West Virginia and across the United States: overdose deaths were dropping.

The label will also highlight the importance of overdose reversal drugs such as Narcan, which bind to the opioid receptors in ...

Federal officials promised on Tuesday to crack down on a potent semisynthetic opioid found in gas store gummies, drinks and ...

Opioids are strong pain relievers, but they also very easily can get misused. Dr. Rey Ximenes of Advanced Pain Care and the ...

A powerful new synthetic opioid, up to 1000 times stronger than morphine, has emerged in Adelaide’s street drug supply, and ...

The FDA is requiring safety labeling changes to all opioid painkillers, to better highlight the risks posed by using the ...

Routinely offering and initiating medication-based treatment for those with opioid use disorder has the potential to save ...

The University of Texas at Austin’s Addiction Research Institute, or ARI, recently received a federal grant for research it ...