A program designed to stem opioid abuse at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility has its funding withdrawn, reinstated ...

A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating “uncertainty and confusion” in cutting thousands ...

The 2025 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series helped New Jersey prescribers deepen their understanding of safer, non-opioid pain management options, advancing efforts to reduce opioid misuse ...

How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to ...

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

Laws requiring physicians to check a patient’s drug history in state databases help lower opioid abuse incidence, according to a paper in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Ithaca, ...

Are Abuse-Deterrent Drugs Less Addictive? Medscape: In a national survey [1] of internists, family physicians, and general practitioners, nearly one half stated that they believed abuse-deterrent ...

Employers in New York risk civil lawsuits if they don’t properly train employees on administering first aid to colleagues who ...

On a global level, it is estimated that 20% of adults suffer from pain, and 10% are being newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year (Goldberg and McGee 2011). The presence of chronic pain afflicts ...

"This is your brain on drugs," the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there's something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in ...

People who abuse opioids are more likely to be hospitalized for sepsis and die, even if they are young and otherwise healthy, according to new research. Researchers analyzed 6.7 million U.S. hospital ...

The report also found the average dosage strength reduced 58.7% between 2012 and 2024. Prescriptions for naloxone, which ...