A new opioid-free pain medication was approved by the FDA on Thursday, marking a non-addictive alternative for patients.

More New Yorkers received scripts for buprenorphine, a med used to treat opioid addiction, amid fight against record-high ...

A recent study highlighted the prevalence of recreational drug use among American teenagers, revealing that an estimated 2.9 million Americans under 18 have used marijuana in recent years.

When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...

New Monash University research has revealed a concerning rise in new opioid prescriptions among younger Victorians, while ...

While drug research and opioid mitigation strategies ... Almost 15,000 of those deaths involved a prescription opioid. Price himself lost one of his best friends to an overdose about 15 years ...

including heroin and prescription pain relievers like Vicodin and Oxycontin, skyrocketed 41% from 2022 to 2023. After weed, opioids ranked the second most commonly misused drug for teens with ...

Veterans who were simultaneously prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faced an ...

Patients seeking an opioid-free way to handle pain experienced in the short-term will soon have a new option.

NSDUH only queried opioid misusers about opioid use disorder symptoms. After they changed the protocol and asked all ...

The program establishes five drop box locations across the U.S. Virgin Islands—two in St. Croix, two in St. Thomas, and one ...

A new congressionally mandated report examines how opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing between 2007 and 2019 impacted ...