The data comes from Utah’s Controlled Substance Database and shows that from 2017 to 2023, daily prescriptions for opioids in ...

Having shown last week that its opioid alternative can reduce post-surgery pain, Tris Pharma is back with another slice of ...

A West Virginia city and county on Tuesday urged the state's top court to revive their $2.5 billion lawsuit accusing the ...

Non-white communities had significantly less access to opioid medications commonly prescribed for moderate to severe pain ...

Passing the Alternatives to PAIN Act would be an excellent way for Trump to uphold his promise to “Make America Healthy Again ...

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S., long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.

Around two-thirds of people relapse within 30 days after being discharged from residential treatment. An app could help them ...

Walgreens' senior managers ignored staff concerns and urged them to keep working with "pill mill" doctors over-prescribing opioid drugs, emails uncovered by the Justice Department and included in ...

Rather than further criminalizing substance use disorder, we must legitimize trauma-informed care as a key pathway to ending ...

Reversing opioid overdoses in rats using a drug that does not enter the brain prevents the sudden and severe withdrawal symptoms associated with therapeutics that target the central nervous system.