A class of synthetic drugs called nitazines have been around since the 1950s - but are quickly gaining a foothold in street ...

Opioids are usually talked about like a “grown-up” problem – an addiction that happens to stressed out adults with jobs and mortgages. But opioid misuse affects teenagers too, and more than people ...

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

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

The state’s Medical Board has issued clear, evidence-based guidelines that recommend starting with non-opioid medications for ...

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

Federal officials in Atlanta announced a major fentanyl bust during a live FBI news conference, calling it one of the most ...

The list of consequences stemming from the country’s rapidly worsening opioid crisis continues to grow. Opioid addiction and abuse is spilling out of the shadows of America’s most destitute ...

For patients recovering from opioid use disorder, particularly from drugs like fentanyl or heroin, the days immediately ...

A clinical trial of an experimental drug for treatment-resistant major depression finds that modulation of the endogenous opioid system may improve the effectiveness of drugs that target the action of ...

Opioid prescription decreased among nursing homes between 2011 and 2022, reflecting national patterns in primary care while also possibly being an ...

New research has found that exposure to opioid pain medications while in the womb may not increase the risk of autism or ADHD, running contrary to findings from other studies. The new research was ...