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

A pain management doctor and a clinical psychologist specializing in substance about give the facts about what to know about opioids to ensure safe use. Conducted by health technology company DrFirst, ...

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of ...

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

Talking with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition’s Loftin Wilson about the coalition’s work, how the opioid epidemic ...

From R&B concerts in New Jersey to a 1950s sock hop in Connecticut, new data shows wide variation in how governments are ...

Opioid receptors are proteins in the nervous system that interact with opioids. Opioid receptors are part of the endogenous opioid system. This is the body’s internal system for regulating pain, ...

North Carolina's second Mobile Opioid Treatment Program is now operating in Greensboro. The North Carolina Department of ...

The Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) is a self-reported questionnaire that doctors can use to assess a person’s potential risk of opioid use disorder before prescribing pain medication. This feature mentions ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that is a non-opioid and carries less risks of addiction than opioids. Journavx works ...

For the first time in 25 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of painkiller. Suzetrigine, sold as Journavx, is administered twice daily in 50-milligram oral tablets to ...