Opioid analgesics represent one of our earliest and most effective therapeutic classes of medication. Despite their recognized efficacy, the opioids have historically been subjected to periods of ...

Opioid abuse, addiction, and diversion also have important costs to the public sector, at local, state, and federal levels. 22,23 Locally, there are substantial costs to law enforcement agencies, ...

Tiger Woods allegedly had two hydrocodone pills in his left pants pocket when he flipped his Land Rover and was subsequently ...

Laws requiring physicians to check a patient’s drug history in state databases help lower opioid abuse incidence, according to a paper in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Ithaca, ...

The clinics that control methadone are driving people out of treatment and back to a toxic supply of street drugs.

The posterboards, representing 11 initiatives, also represent more than $18 million worth of active and planned investments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study, opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains. Photo by Adobe ...

Reductions in overall opioid prescribing and high-dose utilization followed the 2016 guidance, building on declines that ...

People who abuse opioids are more likely to be hospitalized for sepsis and die, even if they are young and otherwise healthy, according to new research. Researchers analyzed 6.7 million U.S. hospital ...

Last year, Haywood rolled out plans for how it will use millions of dollars in opioid lawsuit settlement funds by expanding substance abuse treatment programs through the county's Health and ...

More good news in the battle against opioid addiction. Scientists have reopened research into a class of opioids that were ...