Patients who are prescribed higher daily doses of the medication buprenorphine for opioid use disorder are significantly more ...

Evidence continues to mount suggesting that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on cigarettes, ...

Buprenorphine was associated with a 50% reduction in mortality and improved treatment retention for adolescents with opioid use disorder.

A new study from Virginia Tech researchers has shown that a novel vaccine may be able to help block the addictive impacts of ...

A nonfatal opioid overdose is often treated as a near miss. But clinically, it is one of the strongest predictors of future harm—and one of the few moments when patients are actively engaged with the ...

Diagnoses of opioid use disorder and opioid overdoses were rare in the 12 months following index visits (n = 2362; 0.3%). The Epic model showed low sensitivity to correctly identify people at risk ...

Health insurance loss, changes "may undermine continuity of critical treatment," researche ...

Team-based approaches to perioperative opioid management may go a long way towards cutting down on opioid use for surgical patients, a study published in January in the Journal of the American College ...

Officials plan to compile input from these sessions and others across the state into a report that identifies common themes ...

Multiple states have raised the alarm in the past month about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid tied to several dozen recent ...

The McLeod Center for Wellbeing opened an expanded addiction treatment facility in Monroe late last year, continuing a ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the years since 2017 when the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency, more than half a million ...