OTC pain relievers were as effective as, or better than, prescription opioids for pain after wisdom tooth extraction, in both ...

Sixty-six percent of all drug overdose deaths were attributable to opioids in 2016, according to a Jan. 31 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of mortality data compiled by the CDC’s National Center for ...

Opioid prescription rates among patients with axSpA remained stable in the UK but declined significantly in the US after 2016, likely as a result of CDC guidelines.

Earlier this year, T&D Staff Writer Dionne Gleaton profiled the opioid crisis in an eye-opening three-part series focusing on the extent of the problem, its direct impact on lives and what can be done ...

Major League Baseball will begin testing players for opioids and remove marijuana from its list of "drugs of abuse," as part of its updated drug program, the league and the players union said Thursday ...

Study finds adults on very-high opioid doses (>150 MME/wk) before abrupt discontinuation of long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) had >2x risk of suicide.

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