Opioid addiction doesn’t just take a toll on the body—it reshapes the brain itself. A new study reveals that opioid use ...

One-year-old Nicholas Dominici died from ingesting the deadly opioid fentanyl at a day care center because the owner did not ...

Black men born 1951-1970 always have had the greatest risk of dying of overdoses, even in their 20s, 30s and 40s. It's true ...

Provisional mortality statistics from the CDC indicate a slight reduction in opioid overdose deaths nationally in the United ...

Scientists have long observed a connection between opioid use disorder (OUD) and chronic pain, but the exact reasons behind ...

A study detected fentanyl, carisoprodol and meprobamate in the blubber of bottlenose dolphins from the the Gulf of Mexico, ...

Patients with opioid use disorder can reduce their days of opioid use and stay in treatment longer when using a smartphone app as supportive therapy in combination with medication, a new study by The ...

James Mannion knew what he needed. For nine months, while incarcerated in a county jail in Portland, Maine, he pleaded for a ...

It’s estimated that opioid use disorder costs Medicare over $33 billion a year. If awareness and adoption of non-opioids as pain treatment options could save us even 10% of those costs — that ...

“Among the large number of unlawful prescriptions that CVS allegedly filled were prescriptions for dangerous and excessive quantities of opioids, early fills of opioids, and ‘trinity ...

His body started to change ... born from 1951 through 1970, have been dying of opioid poisoning at a greater rate than any other segment of society. And that’s been true for decades.