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

A new research letter published in JAMA Health Forum highlights major gaps in how opioid use is tracked among older adults ...

Medicare Part D claims significantly underreport opioid dispensing for patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities after hospitalizations, according to a September research letter published in the ...

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

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 ...

Those who kept taking buprenorphine as prescribed for at least a year were much less likely to suffer an overdose or require ...

Greater access to cannabis correlated with significant reductions in opioid prescriptions for people with cancer and ...

North Carolina's second Mobile Opioid Treatment Program launches in Greensboro to expand addiction recovery services.

A new study led by Marshall University researchers found that patients who underwent knee surgery using a minimally invasive "needle arthroscopy" technique used significantly fewer opioids after ...

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

The state health department has opened a new mobile opioid treatment unit in Greensboro — the second of its kind in North ...