New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

Though many Illinois libraries already have supplies of medications that can reverse opioid overdoses, a new state law will ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...

Georgia public schools will soon have access to opioid overdose reversal kits as the state continues to grapple with rising ...

Prescription pharmaceutical transdermal fentanyl is a valuable treatment for management of pain in opioid-tolerant patients, severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid ...

While the dangers of fentanyl have been dominating headlines for years, the death toll from another class of extremely potent synthetic opioids called “nitazenes” has been climbing steadily. For ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Although recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show signs of a reduction in annual opioid overdose deaths beginning in mid-2023, those rates remain above where they were when ...

Opioid medications will be required to have their labeling updated to highlight the safety risks of long-term use, the FDA announced on Thursday. The agency is requiring opioid manufacturers to add to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Methadone is a synthetic long-duration opioid with pharmacological properties qualitatively similar to morphine for its action on µ-opioid receptor. It is primarily used to ...

Jerry Abrams, a 64-year-old marketing strategist in Minneapolis, used to run marathons. But two decades of degenerative spine disease have left him unable to run — and he's grieving. For Abrams, ...