New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

For decades, opioids have been the blunt instrument of modern pain care, powerful enough to quiet severe suffering yet risky ...

Researchers reported that opioid-related pregnancy diagnoses has increased from 0.14 percent in 2008 to 0.33 percent in 2020.

Pregnant women who reported opioid use disorder were more likely to face serious health complications, as were their children ...

The opioid crisis continues to devastate the U.S. In 2021, over 107,000 people died from drug overdoses. The annual economic cost of this crisis exceeds $1 trillion annually. But what makes some ...

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

Ten Iowa entities have been notified they will receive grants of up to $1 million each for opioid addiction prevention and ...

The scourge of opioid addiction continues to run rampant in Tennessee, but a local movement is looking to stamp out this ...

Only about 1 in 3 pharmacies across the country are able to fill prescriptions for a critical treatment option for opioid addiction, according to a new study from the University of Southern California ...

Many people can't get access to opioid medication treatment while incarcerated, or have trouble accessing treatment once released. A community clinic in Alaska is trying to help.

Attorney General Dave Yost has awarded a fourth round of grants totaling $5.3 million to support addiction treatment for ...

Suzetrigine prevents pain signals from reaching the brain and doesn't give an opioid-like high, making it non-addictive—but it's expensive. Reading time 2 minutes To treat acute pain, doctors in the U ...