A major breakthrough in our understanding of pain has been revealed in a collaborative study led by a Leeds scientist, ...

“Nothing substantially better than opioids has been produced ... School of Biomedical Sciences and his team has discovered the body can effectively produce its own targeted “sleeping pills ...

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

Physical therapy can be effective in treating a condition more than 3 million Americans live with every day: chronic pain.

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

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

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

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 ...

Trinity prescriptions are a "dangerous and abused" cocktail of drugs made up of an opioid, a benzodiazepine (a depressant drug) and a muscle relaxant. In a statement emailed to USA TODAY ...

Utah is suing UnitedHealth Group and Express Scripts over their alleged roles in the opioid crisis. The lawsuit claims these companies facilitated opioid sales, worsening addiction and causing ...