When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...

Santa Rosa County will spend opioid settlement dollars to help people jailed for drug crimes continue treatment and recovery ...

After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something ...

After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...

Canada on Tuesday named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country's fentanyl czar, hoping to show the U.S. it is working to prevent production and distribution ...

Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...

For Vertex these days, it’s all about the launches of three new products—sickle cell disease gene therapy Casgevy, the ...

LICADD has been addressing substance use for nearly 70 years, but that fight is not stopping, nor is it's intensity lessening ...

Opioid prescriptions in the emergency department (ED) were associated with small increases in later opioid prescriptions and hospital admissions, found new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical ...

A good night’s sleep often sets the stage for a positive day. But for the nearly quarter of American adults struggling with ...

According to published results, a novel opioid-free pathway may provide noninferior pain management compared with an opioid-containing pathway during the perioperative period in patients undergoing ...