For patients recovering from opioid use disorder, particularly from drugs like fentanyl or heroin, the days immediately following a hospital stay are among the most dangerous. A new multi-state study ...

Vol. 136, No. 1S, Supplement 1: The Surveillance of Nonfatal and Fatal Drug Overdoses: Best Practices, Innovations, and Lessons Learned (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021), pp. 31S-39S (9 pages) Published By: ...

A new research letter published in JAMA Health Forum highlights major gaps in how opioid use is tracked among older adults ...

A new meta-analysis of 148 studies estimates that 9.3 percent of patients who receive opioid prescriptions for chronic pain experience "dependence" or "opioid use disorder" (D&OUD). The authors, Kyla ...

Working-age residents who died between 2011 and 2020 in Massachusetts were 35 percent more likely to have suffered fatal opioid-related overdoses if they had been hurt previously on the job, according ...

To the editor: Naloxone, the generic name for Narcan, can reverse opioid overdoses in a matter of minutes (“Newsom makes $24 generic Narcan available to all Californians,” April 21). This is a timely ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers performed a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in 157 primary care and emergency department (ED) sites across Australia. This study was the first ...

Amid the encouraging decline in opioid-related deaths across Massachusetts in 2023, there was one significant exception: the City of Boston, which recorded the highest number of deaths in seven years, ...