After Black patients undergo a surgery, they are much more likely than their White peers to receive only an opioid for ...

Expanded access to addiction treatment and the overdose-reversal med naloxone likely prompted a 37% reduction in OD d ...

I felt, rather than saw, his acceptance. He turned and walked out, leaving me to my solitude. Before I became addicted to ...

Kolodny says. “It seemed sort of impossible.” Still, he was game to try. Buprenorphine, a milder, safer alternative to methadone, then the standard opioid-addiction treatment, had recently come on the ...

A wildly popular diabetes and weight-loss drug may also protect people from overdosing on opioids. That’s the implication of a new study that examined health records of people with type 2 ...

Opioids and particularly fentanyl continue to devastate America and take over 80,000 lives each year. The government solution of 'harm reduction' doesn't work. We need a new strategy.

When it comes to taking opioids, the United States has the dubious honour of leading the world. For every one million Americans, almost 50,000 doses of opioids are taken every day. That's four ...

A federal study in Ohio, New York, Massachusetts and Kentucky found overdose interventions only helped reduce deaths in ...

Prescriptions for naloxone, the medicine that can reverse opioid overdose, increased 669% for those 10-19 years old from 2017 to 2022, according to CDC researchers. Dr. Darien Sutton explains.

Weight-loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro or Zepbound appear to help people battle alcoholism and opioid ...

One of the prime entry points to opioid dependence for teenagers and young adults is opioid-based painkillers prescribed to treat pain after dental procedures, such as wisdom teeth extraction.