America’s overdose crisis isn’t the simple story we’ve been told for years. A new investigation reveals how two key graphs — ...

We can’t solve what we can’t measure, so let’s use opioid abatement funds to help. Comprehensive toxicology would let us ...

A US study of more than a million Medicaid enrollees newly diagnosed with opioid use disorder (OUD), finds most—nearly seven ...

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

Opioids are still widely prescribed, but have limited effectiveness and are associated with serious harms. De-prescribing ...

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

New popular weight-loss and anti-diabetes drugs may reduce the rate of opioid overdose or alcohol intoxication in people with substance use disorders, according to a new study. The research, published ...

We also found that states that legalized recreational marijuana earliest (for example, in the early 2000s) experience larger decreases in opioid deaths.

Ozempic may lower the risk of opioid overdose in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests, the latest research to find a positive connection between the diabetes drug and another unrelated ...

The National Safety Council made the announcement Monday. For the first time in history, an American is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than they are from a motor vehicle crash, ...

Workers in the skilled trades make up a large share of overdoses fatalities, at a time when their labour is needed more than ...