A new study led by researchers at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Unity Health Toronto shows ...

The group of researchers were the first to take snapshots of the moment naloxone reverses an opioid overdose in the brain.

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The opioid addiction medication buprenorphine ...

A new study provides strong support for the use of opioid agonists, methadone, or buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Investigators found that patients treated with an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Grebely added: “However, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated whether opioid agonist therapy is associated ...

Few patients with opioid toxicity receive opioid agonist therapy (OAT), data suggest. In a retrospective study that examined about 21,000 hospital visits related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in ...

Scientists have visualized for the first time how opioids such as loperamide and the antidote naloxone engage a key brain receptor, offering insight that could lead to better pain treatments.

Addressing overdoses from “street drugs” containing potent synthetic opioids poses a key challenge when utilizing opioid antagonists. A standard approach to known or suspected opioid overdose includes ...