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 ...

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

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 ...

For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts.

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 ...

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

“A generic opioid prescription is cheap ... Of the more than 80 million people in the US who are prescribed drugs for acute pain each year, about half receive opioids, with about 85,000 ...

A new study found a higher mortality rate among veterans who were co-prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines by their doctors ...

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

Better decision-making and more efficient claim handling are two outcomes of the revolution taking place in workers’ ...

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