Higher doses and a longer duration of buprenorphine use throughout pregnancy for opioid use disorder (OUD) are associated with improved postpartum treatment retention and fewer overdose events, with ...

Pennsylvania prisons now give suboxone to thousands of inmates with a substance abuse history, with thousands more on the waiting list. It's costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and raising ...

New research from Mass General Brigham finds that adolescents and young adults who stayed on the medication buprenorphine for at least a year had markedly lower risks of opioid overdose and ...

Among youth who initiated buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder, four patterns of buprenorphine use were identified, with the most common being discontinuation within 3 months. Low adherence ...

After years of alarming increases in opioid overdose deaths, the U.S. finally saw a 1-year decline from 84,000 to 81,000 in 2023. While the marginal drop is encouraging, we cannot rest on this ...

Attempting to reduce fatal opioid overdoses and encourage more people to seek treatment, fire department paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering the medication buprenorphine in the field ...

Three decades into the overdose crisis, US lawmakers are still trying to stem the rising tide of drug-related deaths. Promising recent developments, combined with the effective use of national opioid ...

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

Portland, Ore. (KATU) — 7,000; that's how many overdose calls Portland Fire and Rescue responded to last year. A third of those calls went to Station 1 in Old Town, which is why the bureau is now ...