More individualized pain prescriptions should be considered, researcher says ...

While prescribing peaked more than a decade ago, in 2012, a legacy effect is still underway, with widespread misuse of synthetic opioids (chiefly fentanyl) replacing their prescribed counterparts as ...

As long as kratom is easily available, the number of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder is likely to keep rising.

New warnings from the Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center highlight risks from potent orphine analogs and xylazine.

In the COVID-19 era, under relaxed federal emergency orders, licensed clinicians have been able to prescribe opioid analgesics for their patients even if they've only ever seen the patient via ...

The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called “gas station heroin,” as a controlled substance—a boon for MAHA and the mainstream kratom industry.

In 2022, when Dan McKee and Helena Buonanno Foulkes first squared off for the democratic gubernatorial nomination, opioids ...

Natasha Trajkovski never imagined her prescribed opioid medication to help with the pain of endometriosis would lead her to addiction.

A cohort study shows that people who use opioids are likely to recognise an overdose in peers and safely administer take-home ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released updated and expanded recommendations for prescribing opioids for adults with acute and chronic pain not related to cancer, sickle ...

Feeling good doesn't just lift our mood—it also helps us stay flexible and resilient. A new study by an international team of neuroscientists shows that natural brain opioids released after rewards ...

WVU Health Systems knew for years that employees were stealing highly addictive drugs from 2017 to 2024. A federal settlement shows the medical system didn’t take enough steps to report and stop the ...